Senkbeil, Friderike
Tacitus und Rom: Die urbs Roma als Raum der erzählten Welt in den Historien und Annalen
This research examines the literary representation of Rome and its urban spaces in the two historiographical works of Tacitus. In particular, the investigation focuses on how Tacitus perceives, presents, connotes and functionalizes the city, its urban spaces and topographies which among others implies questions about thematic, symbolic, characterizing or psychologizing functions that can be identified in the text.
The aim of this thesis is to elucidate the specific Tacitean representation of the urbs Roma in comparison to other literary representations and the material Rome of the Tacitean age which as part of a specific construction of past and memory reflects a subjective “Romerlebnis” that exemplifies important aspects of former values and norms.
