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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[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.