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Informationen zum Autor Timothy A. Joseph , Ph.D. (2007) in Classical Philology, Harvard University, is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Klappentext This book considers the Roman historian Tacitus' (c. 55 - c. 120 C.E.) use of the language and narrative techniques of the epic poets, in particular Virgil and Lucan, for his presentation of the Roman civil wars of 68-70 C.E. in the Histories . Preface; Introduction 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; Chapter 1 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"; Chapter 2 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; Chapter 3 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; Chapter 4 Otho's exemplary response; In ullum rei publicae usum; Otho the anti-Aeneas? Epilogue "Savage even in its peace"; Civil war in the senate; "Savagery in the city" in the lost books? Bibliography
