• Media type: Book; Thesis
  • Title: Tacitus the epic successor : Virgil, Lucan, and the narrative of civil war in the Histories
  • Contains: Tacitus the epic successor -- Virgil, Tacitus, and the trope of repetition -- Epic allusion in the Histories -- Tacitus' readers -- Lucan's death and afterlife in Ann. 15.70 -- Maternus and Virgil in the Dialogus -- A Virgilian stylistic program: Ann. 3.55.5 and 4.32.2 -- History as epic: Opus adgredior -- Tacitus' expansive wars -- In medias res -- The catalogue of combatants -- Foreshadowing in the catalogue -- A model reading of civil war: Hist. 1.50 -- Pharsaliam Philippos -- A proem in the middle -- "The same anger of the gods" -- "The same madness of humans" -- The deaths of Galba and the desecration of Rome: Galba and Priam -- Additional Galban intertexts (by way of Priam?) -- The scene of the crime -- Galba's death lives on -- Galba and the Capitol: repetitions -- A fall worse than Troy's -- More war (and more Virgil) at Rome -- The battles of Cremona: The two Cremonas: repetitions -- Ever fleeting commiseration -- The sieges at Placentia and Cremona -- Epic battles fought again at Cremona -- The settlement of Cremona-into flames -- A snapshot of civil war's repetitiveness: Hist. 2.70 -- Otho's exemplary response: In ullum rei publicae usum -- Otho the anti-Aeneas? -- Epilogue: "Savage even in its peace" -- War in the senate -- "Savagery in the city" in the lost books?.
  • Contributor: Joseph, Timothy A. [Author]; Tacitus, Cornelius [Other]; Vergilius Maro, Publius [Other]; Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus [Other]
  • imprint: Leiden [u.a.]: Brill, 2012
  • Published in: Mnemosyne <Leiden> / Supplementum ; 345
  • Extent: XI, 215 S.
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9789004229044
  • RVK notation: FX 225505 : Sekundärliteratur
    FX 225455 : Sekundärliteratur
  • Keywords: Vergilius Maro, Publius > Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus > Bürgerkrieg > Rezeption > Tacitus, Cornelius
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  • Footnote: Teilw. zugl.: Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Univ., Diss., 2007$pCambridge, Mass

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