Portrait of a Pragmatic Hero: Narrative Strategies of Self-presentation in Pliny's Letters |
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accuser action actual admired Agricola analepsis Artemidorus Arulenus Rusticus author/narrator autobiographical Baebius Massa behavior brave Caecina Paetus career Carus chapter character consul contrast convey Corellius Cornelia courage create danger deeds diegesis direct discourse Domitian Domitian's death dramatic elder Arria elder Helvidius Emperor enim episode etiam evaluative word exemplum exile Fannia fate favorable feci feeling Genette glory haec Helvidius Priscus Herennius Senecio husband impression indicated informs the reader Licinianus Mauricus mihi mimetic narrative of events narrative strategies Nerva passage Pliny narrates Pliny the Younger Pliny's Pliny's letters POLIROM portrait posterity praetorship praise prosecution Publicius Certus quae quam quidem quod regime Regulus reign request rhetorical ring composition says scene self-portrait self-presentation Senate sentence Sherwin-White speech Stoic story Suetonius suicide Tacitus tamen tense Thrasea Paetus tion trial of A.D. tricolon tyrant verb Vestal Vestal Virgin victims writing younger Arria younger Helvidius