Tacitus, the epic successor : Virgil, Lucan, and the narrative of civil war in the histories
| 1. Verfasser: |
Joseph, Timothy A.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2012.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xi, 215 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
v. 345. |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Imperium Romanum |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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?.
