Wit and the Writing of History: The Rhetoric of Historiography in Imperial Rome

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Wit and the Writing of History: The Rhetoric of Historiography in Imperial RomeWit has many uses in political discourse to entertain, to underscore or unmask, to hinder or enhance insight. Wit and the Writing of History focuses on how this potential is realized in the historiography of the earlier Principate. Pre eminently in Tacitus, to a lesser degree in Suetonius and Dio Cassius, wit is a vehicle for political understanding and judgment of the historical account. As part of Roman political life, hostile anecdotal or

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