03151nam 2200613Ia 450 991078553050332120200520144314.01-283-55116-0978661386361490-04-23128-510.1163/9789004231283(CKB)2670000000236159(EBL)999464(OCoLC)808441536(SSID)ssj0000715998(PQKBManifestationID)11377616(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000715998(PQKBWorkID)10718054(PQKB)11507652(MiAaPQ)EBC999464(nllekb)BRILL9789004231283(Au-PeEL)EBL999464(CaPaEBR)ebr10590561(CaONFJC)MIL386361(PPN)174389094(EXLCZ)99267000000023615920120420d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrTacitus, the epic successor[electronic resource] Virgil, Lucan, and the narrative of civil war in the histories /by Timothy A. JosephLeiden ;Boston Brill20121 online resource (227 p.)Mnemosyne supplements ;volume 345Description based upon print version of record.90-04-22904-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminary Material /Timothy A. Joseph -- Tacitus the Epic Successor /Timothy A. Joseph -- History as Epic /Timothy A. Joseph -- The Deaths of Galba and the Desecration of Rome /Timothy A. Joseph -- The Battles of Cremona /Timothy A. Joseph -- Otho’s Exemplary Response /Timothy A. Joseph -- “Savage Even in Its Peace” /Timothy A. Joseph -- Bibliography /Timothy A. Joseph -- General Index /Timothy A. Joseph -- Index of Passages Discussed /Timothy A. Joseph.Allusions to the epic poets Virgil and Lucan in the writing of the Roman historian Tacitus (c. 55 – c. 120 C.E.) have long been noted. This monograph argues that Tacitus fashions himself as a rivaling literary successor to these poets; and that the emulative allusions to Virgil’s Aeneid and Lucan’s Bellum Civile in Books 1–3 of his inaugural historiographical work, the Histories , complement and build upon each other, and contribute significantly to the picture of repetitive, escalating civil war in the work. The argument is founded on the close reading of a series of related passages in the Histories , and it also broadens to consider certain narrative techniques and strategies that Tacitus shares with writers of epic.Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava.Supplementum ;345.Classical literatureHistory and criticismRomeHistoriographyClassical literatureHistory and criticism.937/.07Joseph Timothy A477789MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785530503321Tacitus the epic successor241577UNINA