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The Judicial Message In Seneca's Apocolocyntosis, Sylvia Gray Kaplan
The Judicial Message In Seneca's Apocolocyntosis, Sylvia Gray Kaplan
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Seneca's Apocolocyntosis is a sat.ire on the deceased emperor Claudius. probably written in the early months after his death in AD54. Although the authorship and title of the work have been called into question. scholars have now reached a consensus that the sat.ire was written by Seneca and is titled "Apocolocyntosis." Its purpose, characteristic of the Menippean genre, was didactic.
Nineteenth Century French And German Interpretations Of The Early Medieval Germanic Invasions, James N. Owens
Nineteenth Century French And German Interpretations Of The Early Medieval Germanic Invasions, James N. Owens
Dissertations and Theses
Various interpretations of the Germanic invasions of the early Middle Ages have been advanced. These present to the student of historiography a fertile field for inquiry. In this thesis the interpretations of the Germanic invasions propounded by Jules Michelet (1798-1874) and Gustav Freytag (1816-1875) are examined with a view to establishing the cultural context in which their mutually exclusive versions were formulated, and the extent to which that context lent the interpretations of both writers a perceptible national and aesthetic bias.