Pagán A Companion to Tacitus

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5415-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 640 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

A Companion to Tacitus brings much needed clarity andaccessibility to the notoriously difficult language and yetindispensable historical accounts of Tacitus. The companionprovides both a broad introduction and showcases new theoreticalapproaches that enrich our understanding of this complexauthor.
* Tacitus is one of the most important Roman historians of histime, as well as a great literary stylist, whose work ischaracterized by his philosophy of human nature
* Encourages interdisciplinary discussion intended to engagescholars beyond Classics including philosophy, cultural studies,political science, and literature
* Showcases new theoretical approaches that enrich ourunderstanding of this complex author
* Clarifies and explains the notoriously difficult language ofTacitus
* Written and designed to prepare a new generation of scholars toexamine for themselves the richness of Tacitean thought
* Includes contributions from a broad range of establishedinternational scholars and rising stars in the field

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pagán, Victoria Emma

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors viii
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
Victoria Emma Pagán
PART I Texts 13
1 The Textual Transmission 15
Charles E. Murgia
2 The Agricola 23
Dylan Sailor
3 Germania 45
James B. Rives
4 Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus: A Socio-CulturalHistory 62
Steven H. Rutledge
5 The Histories 84
Jonathan Master
6 The Annals 101
Herbert W. Benario
PART II Historiography 123
7 Tacitus' Sources 125
David S. Potter
8 Tacitus and Roman Historiography 141
Arthur Pomeroy
9 The Concentration of Power and Writing History: Forms ofHistorical Persuasion in the Histories (1.1-49) 162
Olivier Devillers
PART III Interpretations 187
10 Deliberative Oratory in the Annals and theDialogus 189
Christopher S. van den Berg
11 Tacitus' Senatorial Embassies of 69 CE 212
Kathryn Williams
12 Deuotio, Disease, and Remedia in the Histories237
Rebecca Edwards
13 Tacitus in the Twenty-First Century: The Struggle for Truthin Annals 1-6 260
Barbara Levick
14 Tacitus' History and Mine 282
Holly Haynes
15 Seneca in Tacitus 305
James Ker
PART IV Intertextuality 331
16 Annum quiete et otio transiit: Tacitus (Ag.6.3) and Sallust on Liberty, Tyranny, and Human Dignity 333
Christopher B. Krebs
17 "Let us tread our path together": Tacitus and the YoungerPliny 345
Christopher Whitton
18 Tacitus and Epic 369
Timothy A. Joseph
19 Silius Italicus and Tacitus on the Tragic Hero: The Case ofGermanicus 386
Eleni Manolaraki and Antony Augoustakis
20 Historian and Satirist: Tacitus and Juvenal 403
Catherine Keane
PART V Theoretical Approaches 429
21 Masculinity and Gender Performance in Tacitus 431
Thomas Späth
22 Women and Domesticity 458
Kristina Milnor
23 Postcolonial Approaches to Tacitus 476
Nancy Shumate
24 Tacitus and Political Thought 504
Daniel Kapust
Bibliography 529
Index 565

Über Autor(innen)

Victoria Emma Pagán is Professor and Chair of Classicsat the University of Florida. She is the author of ConspiracyNarratives in Roman History (2004), Rome and the Literatureof Gardens (2006), A Sallust Reader (2009), andConspiracy Theory in Ancient Rome: Conjecture and SocialStatus (forthcoming), and has published over a dozen articleson Latin literature.