A Companion to Tacitus by Pagan, Victoria Emma -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD Title page Copyright page Notes on Contributors Abbreviations

General Abbreviations Roman Praenomina Greek Authors and Works Roman Authors and Works Works of Secondary Scholarship

Introduction

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART I: Texts

1 The Textual Transmission

1. Annals 1–6 2. Annals 11–16, Histories 3. The Minor Works GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

2 The Agricola

1. Background 2. Structure and Content 3. Praise and Blame 4. Empire and Principate 5. Styles and Genres 6. The Historical Value of Agricola 7. Concluding Remarks: Agricola in Tacitus’ Career GUIDE TO FURTHER READING ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

3 Germania

1. Contexts 2. Interpretations 3. History in Germania, Germania in History 4. Conclusion GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

4 Tacitus’ Dialogus de Oratoribus

1. A History of Approaches and Problems 2. Social History in Antiquity 3. The Literary Form 4. Round One: Patronage and Prestige 5. Round Two: Education, Style, and Culture 6. Round Three: Historical Assessments 7. Epilogue GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

5 The Histories

1. Synopsis 2. Introduction 3. Style 4. Bad Leadership 5. Collapse of Soldiers’ Sense of Mission 6. The Form of the Histories 7. Ethnic Identity GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

6 The Annals

1. Tacitus’ Career and Earlier Works 2. The Annals 3. Style and Language 4. Tacitus in Later Times GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

PART II: Historiography

7 Tacitus’ Sources

GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

8 Tacitus and Roman Historiography

GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

9 The Concentration of Power and Writing History

1. First Unit of the Histories: Methodological Issues, the Emergence of a Theme (1.1–11) 2. The Concentration of Power in the Main Narrative Sections (1.12–49) 3. Methods of Historical Persuasion 4. Types of Passages 5. Conclusion GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

PART III: Interpretations

10 Deliberative Oratory in the Annals and the Dialogus

1. Introduction 2. Deliberative Oratory: The Background 3. The Dialogus 4. The Annals 5. Conclusions GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

11 Tacitus’ Senatorial Embassies of 69 CE

1. Histories 1.19.2 2. Histories 1.74.2 3. Histories 3.80–81 4. Conclusion ACKNOWLEDGMENTS GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

12 Deuotio, Disease, and Remedia in the Histories

1. A Brief History of deuotio 2. The Death of Galba as loco deuotionis 3. Otho’s Self-Sacrifice 4. Flavian remedia GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

13 Tacitus in the Twenty-First Century

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

14 Tacitus’ History and Mine

GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

15 Seneca in Tacitus

1. Introduction 2. Measuring the Man 3. Seneca’s First Mention 4. Writing the Writer 5. Conclusion GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

PART IV: Intertextuality

16 Annum quiete et otio transiit

1. Bovine Quietude 2. In Peace You Rest Unfree ACKNOWLEDGMENTS GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

17 “Let us tread our path together”

1. Out of the Silence 2. Between Oratory and History 3. Dialogues 4. The Problem of Survival 5. Pliny’s Revenge 6. Tacitus’ Revenge 7. Into the Silence GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

18 Tacitus and Epic

1. Poeticus Decor 2. Eaedem Scelerum Causae 3. Vrbem Romam a Principio Reges Habuere GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

19 Silius Italicus and Tacitus on the Tragic Hero

GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

20 Historian and Satirist

1. Family Trees 2. Historical Satire 3. Personae and Protocol 4. The Satires on Tacitus? 5. The State of Vice 6. Exemplarity from History to Satire 7. Conclusion GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

PART V: Theoretical Approaches

21 Masculinity and Gender Performance in Tacitus

1. Vitellius as a Contrastive Foil and the Questionable Masculinity of Roman Soldiers 2. Gender in the Annals 3. Disruptions of the Gender Dichotomy 4. Narrative and Extratextual Performance of Gender

22 Women and Domesticity

1. Domesticity and Ethnography: The Agricola and Germania 2. Domestic Politics: The Annals GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

23 Postcolonial Approaches to Tacitus

1. What Is a Postcolonial Approach? 2. Postcolonial Classics 3. Postcolonial Tacitus GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

24 Tacitus and Political Thought

1. Introduction 2. Political Interpretations of Tacitus 3. Prudence and the Navigation of the Political World 4. Conclusion ACKNOWLEDGMENTS GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

Bibliography Index

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