Tacitus the epic successor: Virgil, Lucan, and the narrative of civil war in the "Histories"
Allusions to the epic poets Virgil and Lucan in the writing of the Roman historian Tacitus (c. 55 - c. 120 C.E.) have long been noted. This monograph argues that Tacitus fashions himself as a rivaling literary successor to these poets; and that the emulative allusions to Virgil's 'Aeneid&#...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Allusions to the epic poets Virgil and Lucan in the writing of the Roman historian Tacitus (c. 55 - c. 120 C.E.) have long been noted. This monograph argues that Tacitus fashions himself as a rivaling literary successor to these poets; and that the emulative allusions to Virgil's 'Aeneid' and Lucan's 'Bellum Civile' in Books 1-3 of his inaugural historiographical work, the 'Histories', complement and build upon each other, and contribute significantly to the picture of repetitive, escalating civil war in the work. The argument is founded on the close reading of a series of related passages in the 'Histories', and it also broadens to consider certain narrative techniques and strategies that Tacitus shares with writers of epic |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Preface
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Introduction.
Tacitus the Epic Successor
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ι
Virgil, Tacitus, and the Trope of Repetition
........................ 3
Epic Allusion in the Histories
....................................... 9
Tacitus Readers
.................................................... 13
Lucan s Death and Afterlife in Ann.
15.70........................... 17
Maternus and Virgil in the
Dialógus
................................ 18
A Virgilian Stylistic Program: Ann.
3.55.5
and
4.32.2................ 22
1.
History as Epic
..................................................... 29
Opus adgredior
..................................................... 30
Tacitus Expansive Wars
............................................ 33
In
medias res
........................................................ 37
The Catalogue of Combatants
...................................... 42
Foreshadowing in the Catalogue
................................... 48
A Model Reading of Civil War: Hist.
1.50............................ 53
Pharsaliam Phitippos
............................................... 57
A Proem in the Middle
............................................. 62
The Same Anger of the Gods
...................................... 67
The Same Madness of Humans
................................... 73
2.
The Deaths of
Galba
and the Desecration of Rome
................. 79
Galba
and Priam
.................................................... 79
Additional
Gálban Intertexts
(by Way of Priam?)
.................. 85
The Scene of the Crime
............................................. 88
Galba s Death lives On
............................................. 95
Galba
and the Capitol: Repetitions
................................. 98
A Fall Worse than Troy s
...........................................103
More War (and More Virgil) at Rome
..............................
г
06
3.
The Battles of Cremona
............................................113
The Two Cremonas: Repetitions
...................................115
Ever Fleeting Commiseration
......................................121
The Sieges at Placentia and Cremona
..............................126
VIH
CONTENTS
Epic Battles Fought again at Cremona
.............................129
The Settlement of Cremona
—
into Flames
.........................135
A Snapshot of Civil War s Repetitiveness: Hist.
2.70................144
4.
Otho s Exemplary Response
........................................153
In ullum reipublicae usum
..........................................156
Otho the Anti-Aeneas?
.............................................159
Epilogue. Savage Even in Its Peace
....................................169
Civil War in the Senate
.............................................172
Savagery in the City in the Lost Books?
...........................180
Bibliography
............................................................191
General Index
...........................................................205
Index of Passages Discussed
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