The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus (2009)......Page 1
ISBN: 9780521874601......Page 5
--> Contents\r......Page 8
Contributors\r......Page 11
Preface\r......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
FURTHER READING......Page 31
1 - From the annalists to the Annales : Latin historiography before Tacitus (A. M. GOWING)......Page 34
The annalists......Page 35
Late Republican and early imperial historiography: Sallust and Livy......Page 38
Velleius Paterculus......Page 41
The fragmentary imperial historians......Page 43
Conclusion......Page 45
FURTHER READING......Page 46
I......Page 48
II......Page 49
III......Page 52
IV......Page 54
V......Page 56
FURTHER READING......Page 60
3 - The Agricola (A. R. BIRLEY)......Page 64
FURTHER READING......Page 75
4 - The Germania as literary text (RICHARD F. THOMAS)......Page 76
Structure and content......Page 77
The monograph (1–27.1)......Page 78
The catalogue (27.2–46)......Page 79
History as digression (33 and 37)......Page 80
Ethnography and cultural poetics: Chauci to Cherusci (34–6)......Page 83
Ethnographical thaumata: Fenni to Chatti (46)......Page 86
Ending: amphiboly and sententious clausulae......Page 87
FURTHER READING......Page 89
5 - The faces of eloquence: the Dialogus de oratoribus (SANDER M. GOLDBERG)......Page 90
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Introduction......Page 102
A top-heavy narrative......Page 105
Fission: disintegration and collapse......Page 107
Fusion: restoration and survival......Page 112
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Succession......Page 117
illuc cuncta uergere......Page 121
Germanicus and the women......Page 124
FURTHER READING......Page 132
Claudius’ story?......Page 133
Structure and narrative......Page 136
The battle for history......Page 141
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Murder all in the family......Page 144
Nero and his victims......Page 149
Nero and disaster......Page 153
Patientia seruilis? Plautus, Piso and Paetus......Page 155
The death of Nero......Page 158
Finale......Page 159
FURTHER READING......Page 160
10 - Tacitus’ personal voice (CHRISTOPHER PELLING)......Page 164
From ‘I ’ to ‘we’......Page 169
Insight shared......Page 172
Insight manipulated......Page 175
Fact and impression – and impressions of perplexity......Page 177
Conclusion......Page 183
FURTHER READING......Page 184
A philosophy of history?......Page 185
Tacitus on writing history......Page 191
Example 1: the trial of Cn. Calpurnius Piso......Page 194
Example 2: Claudius’ speech on the admission of Gallic senators......Page 197
Example 3: the architecture of the Annals......Page 199
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12 - Res olim dissociabiles: emperors, senators and liberty (S. P. OAKLEY)......Page 201
FURTHER READING......Page 211
Introduction......Page 212
Vocabulary......Page 213
Sentence-structure: the infl uence of Sallust......Page 214
The pointed style......Page 216
Differing shapes of sentence......Page 220
Tacitus and Suetonius on the end of Vitellius......Page 223
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I......Page 229
II......Page 232
III......Page 240
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15 - Warfare in the Annals (D. S . LEVENE)......Page 242
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16 - From manuscript to print (R. H. MARTIN)......Page 258
Manuscripts......Page 259
Annals 1–6......Page 260
Annals 11–16 and Histories 1–5......Page 261
Opera minora......Page 262
Early printed editions......Page 265
FURTHER READING......Page 268
17 - Tacitus and political thought in early modern Europe, c. 1530–c. 1640 (ALEXANDRA GAJDA)......Page 270
FURTHER READING......Page 285
18 - Gibbon and Tacitus (PAUL CARTLEDGE)......Page 286
Enlightenment in Lausanne......Page 287
Erudition and philosophy......Page 288
Theme and subject matter......Page 291
Style......Page 292
Interpretations......Page 293
GIBBON’S WORKS......Page 294
FURTHER READING......Page 295
19 - A dangerous book: the reception of the Germania (C. B. KREBS)......Page 297
Early inconsequential receptions......Page 298
The rediscovery of the Germania and the discovery of the Germanen......Page 299
Italian intermediation, provocation and fi ction......Page 300
German awakening and the durable formation of stereotypes......Page 302
Languages and mores: the seventeenth century......Page 305
Montesquieu’s esprit général and Herder’s Geist der Nation......Page 306
Nationalism, racism and the völkisch movement: the nineteenth century......Page 309
‘Thus shall we be again’: National Socialist readings of the Germania......Page 312
FURTHER READING......Page 316
Coming badly unhinged: Robert Graves......Page 317
Speaking for the conquered: Naomi Mitchison......Page 321
Losing memory as well as voice......Page 328
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21 - Tacitus’ Syme (MARK TOHER)......Page 334
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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE......Page 347
ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 349
INDEX LOCORUM......Page 374
GENERAL INDEX......Page 378