Companion to Tacitus (eBook)

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.

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

"In sum, this volume is highly recommended - to the
novice or the expert alike - in its multiple forms and
functions: as an effective introduction to the works of Tacitus; as
a refresher on Tacitus' formative role in shaping Latin
historiographical practice and the reception of Latin historical
writing by contemporary and modern readerships; as a collection of
critically nuanced responses to the literary sophistication of
Tacitus' approaches to producing meaning in its many guises;
and as a curative for critiques of Tacitus' writing which
fail to recognize the richness of his intellectual
palette." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 31
February 2014)

"With its sensible blend of traditional philology and
theoretical innovation, this companion makes, overall, a
significant contribution to Tacitean scholarship...The editorial
quality of this companion is excellent...The book is well
organized and user-friendly...More than enough to guide the
kind of readership for which this companion is intended, especially
in English." (The Classical Review, 1 September
2013)

"Here is a work that indicates clearly why Tacitus and his
works still matter." (Reference Reviews, 1 May
2013)

"Even so, the whole remains more than the sum of its
excellent parts. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division
undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 August
2012)