Nation, empire, decline : studies in rhetorical continuity from the Romans to the modern era /
Shumate, Nancy.
London : Duckworth,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-185) and index.
Them and us: constructing Romanness in the Satires of Juvenal -- Augustan nation-building and Horace's 'Roman' odes (3.2, 3.5, 3.6) -- Tacitus and the rhetoric of empire -- 'Crazy Egypt' and colonial discourse in Juvenal's fifteenth satire.
Horace
Juvenal
Tacitus, Cornelius
European literature
European literature
Nationalism in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Nation, empire, decline.