Manufacturing the Golden Age of Trajan

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-39
Author(s):  
Edward J. Watts
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Regime Change

The reign of Augustus showed how claims about Roman decline could become tools to justify regime change. Julio-Claudian emperors tended to emphasize continuity with dynastic predecessors rather than the rhetoric of decline and renewal. Following the death of Nero, Galba and the three new emperors who seized power from him justified their actions by talking about the terrible reigns of their murdered predecessors as times of Roman decline that they will correct. The same pattern appeared again after the murder of Domitian in 96. The reign of Nerva and, in particular, that of Trajan saw many senators like Pliny and Tacitus as well as authors like Plutarch echo these claims in their own work as a way to enhance their own reputations in what they framed as a new golden age.

The Golden Age of School Psychology?

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 (9) ◽  
pp. 842-844
Author(s):  
Elizabeth W. Brazelton ◽  
Patsy Barrett ◽  
Jain McGarity ◽  
Nancy Michael ◽  
Carolyn Paul ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
School Psychology ◽  
Golden Age

The Golden Age in Russian Refining: Outcomes and Prospects

2012 ◽  
pp. 124-131
Author(s):  
Yu. Astashov
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Oil Extraction ◽  
The State ◽  
Oil Refining ◽  
Tax Reforms

The article considers the state of things in Russian oil refining. The options for its modernization are analyzed, as well as the effects of tax reforms in the sector. It is noted that current tax reforms mostly touch upon refining, not oil extraction, so one can expect further reforms in the sector and their impact on the industry.

The Many Pasts of Detective Fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-172
Author(s):  
Thomas Leitch
Keyword(s):  
Detective Fiction ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Public History ◽  
Detective Novel ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Detective Story ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Detective Novels ◽  
The Many

Building on Tzvetan Todorov's observation that the detective novel ‘contains not one but two stories: the story of the crime and the story of the investigation’, this essay argues that detective novels display a remarkably wide range of attitudes toward the several pasts they represent: the pasts of the crime, the community, the criminal, the detective, and public history. It traces a series of defining shifts in these attitudes through the evolution of five distinct subgenres of detective fiction: exploits of a Great Detective like Sherlock Holmes, Golden Age whodunits that pose as intellectual puzzles to be solved, hardboiled stories that invoke a distant past that the present both breaks with and echoes, police procedurals that unfold in an indefinitely extended present, and historical mysteries that nostalgically fetishize the past. It concludes with a brief consideration of genre readers’ own ambivalent phenomenological investment in the past, present, and future each detective story projects.

Rethinking Golden-Age Drama: The Comedia and its Contexts

Paragraph ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-34
Author(s):  
JONATHAN THACKER
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age
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