摘要：In many ways this is a model Dissertation. Produced and published in thecontext of an Exzellenzkluster at the University of Konstanz, JohannesGeisthardt’s volume assembles some well-known texts—Tacitus’ Agricola,Histories, and Annals and Pliny’s Panegyricus and Epistles—for fresh analysis. Histheme is senatorial identity and self-representation in the principate of Trajan;he argues, in a nutshell, that the works of Pliny and Tacitus subscribe toa single political discourse (the ‘Optimus-Princeps-Diskurs’) which affirmsTrajan as an ideal emperor while (and through) vindicating a space for freesenatorial participation in his Rome.
