Tacitus the Epic Successor
Virgil, Lucan, and the Narrative of Civil War in the Histories
Biographical note
Timothy A. Joseph, Ph.D. (2007) in Classical Philology, Harvard University, is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Readership
All those interested in ancient historiography and epic, and in particular in the points of contact between the two genres.
Table of contents
Preface
Introduction 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
Chapter 1 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”
Chapter 2 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
Chapter 3 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
Chapter 4 Otho’s exemplary response
In ullum rei publicae usum
Otho the anti-Aeneas?
Epilogue “Savage even in its peace”
Civil war in the senate
“Savagery in the city” in the lost books?
Bibliography
Introduction 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
Chapter 1 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”
Chapter 2 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
Chapter 3 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
Chapter 4 Otho’s exemplary response
In ullum rei publicae usum
Otho the anti-Aeneas?
Epilogue “Savage even in its peace”
Civil war in the senate
“Savagery in the city” in the lost books?
Bibliography
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