A Companion to Tacitus

A Companion to Tacitus brings much needed clarity and
accessibility to the notoriously difficult language and yet
indispensable historical accounts of Tacitus. The companion
provides both a broad introduction and showcases new theoretical
approaches that enrich our understanding of this complex
author.

• Tacitus is one of the most important Roman historians of his
  time, as well as a great literary stylist, whose work is
  characterized by his philosophy of human nature

• Encourages interdisciplinary discussion intended to engage
  scholars beyond Classics including philosophy, cultural studies,
  political science, and literature

• Showcases new theoretical approaches that enrich our
  understanding of this complex author

• Clarifies and explains the notoriously difficult language of
  Tacitus

• Written and designed to prepare a new generation of scholars to
  examine for themselves the richness of Tacitean thought

• Includes contributions from a broad range of established
  international scholars and rising stars in the field

Autorentext

Victoria Emma Pagán is Professor and Chair of Classics
at the University of Florida. She is the author of Conspiracy
Narratives in Roman History (2004), Rome and the Literature
of Gardens (2006), A Sallust Reader (2009), and
Conspiracy Theory in Ancient Rome: Conjecture and Social
Status (forthcoming), and has published over a dozen articles
on Latin literature.

Zusammenfassung
A Companion to Tacitus brings much needed clarity and accessibility to the notoriously difficult language and yet indispensable historical accounts of Tacitus. The companion provides both a broad introduction and showcases new theoretical approaches that enrich our understanding of this complex author.

• Tacitus is one of the most important Roman historians of his time, as well as a great literary stylist, whose work is characterized by his philosophy of human nature
• Encourages interdisciplinary discussion intended to engage scholars beyond Classics including philosophy, cultural studies, political science, and literature
• Showcases new theoretical approaches that enrich our understanding of this complex author
• Clarifies and explains the notoriously difficult language of Tacitus
• Written and designed to prepare a new generation of scholars to examine for themselves the richness of Tacitean thought
• Includes contributions from a broad range of established international scholars and rising stars in the field

Inhalt

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-Cultural
History 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 of
Historical Persuasion in the Histories (1.1-49) 162

Olivier Devillers

PART III Interpretations 187

10 Deliberative Oratory in the Annals and the
Dialogus 189

Christopher S. van den Berg

11 Tacitus' Senatorial Embassies of 69 CE 212

Kathryn Williams

12 Deuotio, Disease, and Remedia in the Histories
237

Rebecca Edwards

13 Tacitus in the Twenty-First Century: The Struggle for Truth
in 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 Younger
Pliny 345

Christopher Whitton

18 Tacitus and Epic 369

Timothy A. Joseph

19 Silius Italicus and Tacitus on the Tragic Hero: The Case of
Germanicus 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