Political Dissidence Under Nero: The Price of Dissimulation

ISBN-13: 9780415069519 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 388 str.

Vasily Rudich;Rudich Vasily

Opis

Vasily Rudich examines the phenomenon of dissidence from both historical and psychological perspectives. He investigates the interaction of the universal components of human motive, thought and act, with those that are culturally conditioned. He portrays the predicament of the dissident in Nero's Rome as seen and felt by the dissidents themselves, and recreates their thought and conduct through their own conceptual and verbal means. Those who endured the tribulations of Nero's rule were broadly divergent in their motives and backgrounds: they ranged from cynical opportunists to intransigent opposers. This book shows their various efforts at adjustment to a hostile reality through dissimulation and places their careers in a chronological, increasingly dramatic narrative. Even though Rudich's insights may owe something to his own dissident experience under totalitarian rule in Russia, the author carefully avoids any direct parallel or retrospection. His detailed and innovative analysis of senatorial politics under the early Empire is rooted in the evidence found in classical sources.

Recenzje

`... the core of Rudich's book consists of six thickly detailed chapters which cover the varied careers, experiences and fates of those who dissented under Nero. Many of these mini-biographies are finely drawn. Their strenght lies in a recognition of their subjects' humanity.' - Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The Years of Expectation; Chapter 2 The Years of Frustration; Chapter 3 The Years of Action; Chapter 4 The Years of Decimation; Chapter 5 The Years of Decimation; Chapter 6 The Year of Revolution;

O autorze

Vasily Rudich