Etiqueta: Patrick Sinclair

Tacitus The Sententious Historian

Tacitus The Sententious Historian

More than any other single rhetorical device in Latin oratory and literature, the sententia is the supreme expression of the self-image of Rome during the imperial period, the Principate. Whether one defines sententia as a generalizing maxim or a prose epigram, its importance in Roman rhetoric, literature, and public life during the early Principate indicates… Leer Más