Tacitus the Epic Successor: Virgil, Lucan, and the Narrative of Civil War in the Histories

✍ Scribed by Timothy A. Joseph

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 229
Series: Mnemosyne Supplements 345
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 inthe 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.

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