Companion to Tacitus

Victoria Emma Pagán is Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Florida. She is the author of Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History (2004), Rome and the Literature of Gardens (2006), A Sallust Reader (2009), and Conspiracy Theory in Ancient Rome: Conjecture and Social Status (forthcoming), and has published over a dozen articles on Latin literature.

“In sum, this volume is highly recommended – to the novice or the expert alike – in its multiple forms and functions: as an effective introduction to the works of Tacitus; as a refresher on Tacitus’ formative role in shaping Latin historiographical practice and the reception of Latin historical writing by contemporary and modern readerships; as a collection of critically nuanced responses to the literary sophistication of Tacitus’ approaches to producing meaning in its many guises; and as a curative for critiques of Tacitus’ writing which fail to recognize the richness of his intellectual palette.”  (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 31 February 2014)“With its sensible blend of traditional philology and theoretical innovation, this companion makes, overall, a significant contribution to Tacitean scholarship...The editorial quality of this companion is excellent…The book is well organized and user-friendly…More than enough to guide the kind of readership for which this companion is intended, especially in English.”  (The Classical Review, 1 September 2013)“Here is a work that indicates clearly why Tacitus and his works still matter.”  (Reference Reviews, 1 May 2013)“Even so, the whole remains more than the sum of its excellent parts.  Summing Up: Essential.  Upper-division undergraduates and above.”  (Choice, 1 August 2012)

• Notes on Contributors viii Abbreviations xiiiIntroduction 1Victoria Emma PagánPART I Texts 131 The Textual Transmission 15Charles E. Murgia2 The Agricola 23Dylan Sailor3 Germania 45James B. Rives4 Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus: A Socio-Cultural History 62Steven H. Rutledge5 The Histories 84Jonathan Master6 The Annals 101Herbert W. BenarioPART II Historiography 1237 Tacitus' Sources 125David S. Potter8 Tacitus and Roman Historiography 141Arthur Pomeroy9 The Concentration of Power and Writing History: Forms of Historical Persuasion in the Histories (1.1-49) 162Olivier DevillersPART III Interpretations 18710 Deliberative Oratory in the Annals and the Dialogus 189Christopher S. van den Berg11 Tacitus' Senatorial Embassies of 69 CE 212Kathryn Williams12 Deuotio, Disease, and Remedia in the Histories 237Rebecca Edwards13 Tacitus in the Twenty-First Century: The Struggle for Truth in Annals 1-6 260Barbara Levick14 Tacitus' History and Mine 282Holly Haynes15 Seneca in Tacitus 305James KerPART IV Intertextuality 33116 Annum quiete et otio transiit: Tacitus (Ag. 6.3) and Sallust on Liberty, Tyranny, and Human Dignity 333Christopher B. Krebs17 "Let us tread our path together": Tacitus and the Younger Pliny 345Christopher Whitton18 Tacitus and Epic 369Timothy A. Joseph19 Silius Italicus and Tacitus on the Tragic Hero: The Case of Germanicus 386Eleni Manolaraki and Antony Augoustakis20 Historian and Satirist: Tacitus and Juvenal 403Catherine KeanePART V Theoretical Approaches 42921 Masculinity and Gender Performance in Tacitus 431Thomas Späth22 Women and Domesticity 458Kristina Milnor23 Postcolonial Approaches to Tacitus 476Nancy Shumate24 Tacitus and Political Thought 504Daniel KapustBibliography 529Index 565