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.)

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[damiel.livejournal.com]

It's comforting to know that, since GoGA is completely absent, there's at least some good old... Oh, wait. Those are two n's.

Nevermind. This reading sounds boring.

The nerve that some people have to write about Tacitus in a Romance language. I tell you. Might you give this a try, backed with your Latin, and fare better than with the Italian? Although I suspect Latin would've been more useful, if anything, with the latter.

But yeah, if you need help translating some passages, or like rojagato said navigating, do ask.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

The last time I had to read Spanish -- a couple of weeks ago, a recent and brief article on pretty much the same toppic, actually -- it did go reasonably well with help from Latin and, dare I say it, occasional use of babelfish. Although what probably made the article particularly easy to read was that it consisted almost entirely of non-analytical summary of Tacitus with a few factual errors to make it interesting.

If I were lucky it'd be the same author and I'd know I could skip the dissertation.

Anyway, thanks for the offers of help -- I may well take you all up on it some time this summer.