Deconstructing Imperial Representation: Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius on Nero and Domitian

‎Contents
‎Preface
‎Introduction. Content and Purpose of This Study
‎Part 1. Constructing the Emperor in Historiography and Panegyric
	‎Chapter 1. Texts and Stories: On ‘Dinners with the Emperor’
		‎1. An Example: Constructing Imperial Dinners
		‎2. Ingredients for a Good Imperial Dinner
		‎3. Critical Texts: Digesting Bad Dinners
		‎4. Conclusions Drawn from This Case Study
	‎Chapter 2. Theory and History
		‎1. Imperial Representation: Nero and Domitian
		‎2. Discourse and Deconstruction
		‎3. Literature and Persuasiveness
‎Part 2. Tacitus: Deconstruction and Uncertainty
	‎Introduction to Part 2
	‎Chapter 3. Imperial Representation and Topics of Deconstruction
		‎1. Military Actions: From Peace to Inactivity, from Victory to Hypocrisy
		‎2. Building Endeavours: From Construction to Destruction
		‎3. Public Entertainment: From Popular to Eccentric Performances
		‎4. Nero’s Speeches: Gaining Rhetorical Power
		‎5. Divinity: From God-Like to Unhuman
		‎6. Atmosphere: From Golden Age to the Dynamics of Bad Times
	‎Chapter 4. Strategies of Deconstruction in Tacitus
		‎1. Overview: How to Deconstruct Imperial Representation
		‎2. Negative Connotations: ‘Facts’, Additions, and Foils
		‎3. Causation and Character
		‎4. New Forms of Logic
	‎Chapter 5. Creating Uncertainty
		‎1. Tacitus and Theories of Uncertainty
		‎2. Playing with Variants
		‎3. Playing with Oppositions
		‎4. Uncertainty and Interpretation
	‎Conclusion to Part 2
‎Part 3. Cassius Dio: Deconstruction and Typologies
	‎Introduction to Part 3
	‎Chapter 6. Writing Historiography under the Severans
		‎1. The Roman History and the Early Third Century
		‎2. Imperial Representation in the Roman History
	‎Chapter 7. Strategies of Deconstruction in Cassius Dio
		‎1. Negative Connotations
		‎2. Persuasive Characters
		‎3. The Rhetoric of Combination
		‎4. Selection and Focus
		‎5. Spoiling the Atmosphere
	‎Chapter 8. Deconstruction and the Construction of Memory
		‎1. Typologies of Bad Emperors
		‎2. Hot Memory: Why Nero and Domitian?
		‎3. Genealogies versus Typologies
	‎Conclusion to Part 3
‎Part 4. Suetonius: Deconstruction and Entertainment
	‎Introduction to Part 4
	‎Chapter 9. Biography and Eccentric Representation
		‎1. Structure and Criticism: Current Debates on Suetonius
		‎2. Rubrics and Representation: Fragmentation and Re-contextualization
	‎Chapter 10. Strategies of Deconstruction in Suetonius
		‎1. Historiographical Techniques in Imperial Biographies
		‎2. Suetonian Techniques: The Effect of Rubrics
		‎3. Ambivalent Techniques and a Weaker Form of Deconstruction
	‎Chapter 11. Deconstructed Elements and Miscellanism
		‎1. Beyond Tacitus and Cassius Dio: Suetonian Deconstruction and the Historiographical Discourse
		‎2. Between Pliny the Elder and Aulus Gellius: Suetonian Deconstruction and the Non-historiographical Discourse
	‎Conclusion to Part 4
‎Part 5. Conclusion
	‎Three Modes of Deconstruction
‎Appendix. Deconstruction and Rhetorical Strategies
‎Bibliography
‎Index Locorum
‎General Index