Companion to Tacitus

Victoria Emma Pagan 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.

Notes on Contributors viii Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 Victoria Emma Pagan 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 Spath 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