Description
Book SynopsisThis provocative new companion to Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History shows how viewing an array of Latin texts through the lens of conspiracy theory reveals a host of socioeconomic tensions from the Roman Republic through the age of the emperors.
Trade ReviewPagan has interesting things to say about these authors and about conspiracies and the Romans’ use of (mis)informed conjecture…those interested in politics in the Roman world will welcome the book. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
-- M. J. Johnson, Vanderbilt University * Choice *
Table of Contents
- Foreword by Mark Fenster
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: From Conspiracy to Conspiracy Theory
- Chapter 1: Conspiracy Theory in Action
- Chapter 2: Juvenal and Blame
- Chapter 3: Tacitus and Punishment
- Chapter 4: Suetonius and Suspicion
- Epilogue: The Golden Age of Conspiracy Theory
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index Locorum
