James McNamara is a DAAD-Prime Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Victoria Emma Pagán is Professor of Classics at the University of Florida, USA.

This book goes beyond the apparent artistic/anecdotal function of wonders in innovative ways and sheds light on how knowledge of the world is constructed in Tacitus’ works through miracula.

• Notes on ContributorsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction (James McNamara, University of Potsdam, Germany and Victoria Emma Pagán, University of Florida, USA)Part 1: Tacitus and Paradoxography1. Tacitus and Paradoxography (Kelly Shannon-Henderson, University of Alabama, USA)2. Beyond Ira and Studium: Tacitus and the Hellenistic Anxiety about Wonder (Rik Peters, University of Chicago, USA)3. Wonderment in Aper’s Second Speech in Tacitus’ Dialogus de Oratoribus (Art Pomeroy, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand )4. Laus eloquentiae and fama rerum: The paradox of the socially marvellous in Tacitus’ Dialogus and Agricola(Brandon Jones, Boston University, USA)Part 2: Interpreting Wonders5. Marvellous Predictions: Wonders as Metahistory in Annals 6 (George Baroud, Emerson College, USA)6. Prodigiosum Dictu: Interpreting Signs and Oracles in Tacitus’ Histories (Callum Aldiss, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)7. Interpreting wonders in the Agricola and Germania (James McNamara, University of Potsdam, Germany)Part 3: The Principate as Object of Wonder8. qualem diem Tiberius induisset: Tiberius’ Absences on Capri as an Inspiration for onder and Uncertainty (Panayiotis Christoforou, University of Oxford, UK)9. Tacitus’ Tragic Touch: Vespasian’ Healing Miracles at Histories 4.81-3 (Holly Haynes, The College of New Jersey, USA)10. Tacitus’ Ordinary Wonders (Victoria Emma Pagán, University of Florida, USA)Index

James McNamara is a DAAD-Prime Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Victoria Emma Pagán is Professor of Classics at the University of Florida, USA.

This book goes beyond the apparent artistic/anecdotal function of wonders in innovative ways and sheds light on how knowledge of the world is constructed in Tacitus’ works through miracula.

• Notes on ContributorsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction (James McNamara, University of Potsdam, Germany and Victoria Emma Pagán, University of Florida, USA)Part 1: Tacitus and Paradoxography1. Tacitus and Paradoxography (Kelly Shannon-Henderson, University of Alabama, USA)2. Beyond Ira and Studium: Tacitus and the Hellenistic Anxiety about Wonder (Rik Peters, University of Chicago, USA)3. Wonderment in Aper’s Second Speech in Tacitus’ Dialogus de Oratoribus (Art Pomeroy, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand )4. Laus eloquentiae and fama rerum: The paradox of the socially marvellous in Tacitus’ Dialogus and Agricola(Brandon Jones, Boston University, USA)Part 2: Interpreting Wonders5. Marvellous Predictions: Wonders as Metahistory in Annals 6 (George Baroud, Emerson College, USA)6. Prodigiosum Dictu: Interpreting Signs and Oracles in Tacitus’ Histories (Callum Aldiss, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)7. Interpreting wonders in the Agricola and Germania (James McNamara, University of Potsdam, Germany)Part 3: The Principate as Object of Wonder8. qualem diem Tiberius induisset: Tiberius’ Absences on Capri as an Inspiration for onder and Uncertainty (Panayiotis Christoforou, University of Oxford, UK)9. Tacitus’ Tragic Touch: Vespasian’ Healing Miracles at Histories 4.81-3 (Holly Haynes, The College of New Jersey, USA)10. Tacitus’ Ordinary Wonders (Victoria Emma Pagán, University of Florida, USA)Index