An unhappy discovery in the past 20 minutes

[quislibet]

I suppose if I am going to do a dissertation on "representations of women in Tacitus" I will at some point need to come to terms with this.

I am sad.

(In case the link doesn't work from outside a server that subscribes to the UMI digital dissertations website, it's the abstract of a 985-page dissertation from just last year, in Spanish, on "Female archetypes in Tacitus' Annals." Nine hundred and eighty-five pages. In Spanish. Blah.)

Comments

[rojagato.livejournal.com]

Hrm. You have at least three friends who can read Spanish. We could make a couple of evenings of it. It sounds like it could be fun, with the right plan of attack. (Mind you, I'm not envisioning a word-for-word translation--maybe just marking up the paper to make it easier to navigate.)

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Hmm. That'd be cool. It will be a while, however, esp. as I'll have to order the thing from UMI. (Now at 985 pages, do I want to be cheap and have them send it to me electronically or unbound, or is the extra 10 or 15 bucks worth it to me to have it bound in softcover? Oh well. I'm probably not going to rush to do this...)