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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Joseph, Timothy A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Colección:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; v. 345.
Temas:
Tacitus, Cornelius. > Annales.
Tacitus, Cornelius. > Historiae.
Virgil.
Lucan, > 39-65.
Lucan, > 39-65
Virgil
Annales (Tacitus, Cornelius)
Historiae (Tacitus, Cornelius)
HISTORY > Ancient > Rome.
Historiography
Rome > Historiography.
Rome (Empire)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tacitus the epic successor
  • Virgil, Tacitus, and the trope of repetition
  • Epic allusion in the Histories
  • Tacitus' readers
  • Lucan's death and afterlife in Ann. 15.70
  • Maternus and Virgil in the Dialogus
  • A Virgilian stylistic program: Ann. 3.55.5 and 4.32.2
  • History as epic: Opus adgredior
  • Tacitus' expansive wars
  • In medias res
  • The catalogue of combatants
  • Foreshadowing in the catalogue
  • A model reading of civil war: Hist. 1.50
  • Pharsaliam Philippos
  • A proem in the middle
  • "The same anger of the gods"
  • "The same madness of humans"
  • The deaths of Galba and the desecration of Rome: Galba and Priam
  • Additional Galban intertexts (by way of Priam?)
  • The scene of the crime
  • Galba's death lives on
  • Galba and the Capitol: repetitions
  • A fall worse than Troy's
  • More war (and more Virgil) at Rome
  • The battles of Cremona: The two Cremonas: repetitions
  • Ever fleeting commiseration
  • The sieges at Placentia and Cremona
  • Epic battles fought again at Cremona
  • The settlement of Cremona-into flames
  • A snapshot of civil war's repetitiveness: Hist. 2.70
  • Otho's exemplary response: In ullum rei publicae usum
  • Otho the anti-Aeneas?
  • Epilogue: "Savage even in its peace"
  • War in the senate
  • "Savagery in the city" in the lost books?

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