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Fairy Tales and Hard Truths in Tacitus's Histories 4.6–10

Classical Antiquity, 2019
In a new reading of Tacitus's account of the quarrel between Helvidius Priscus and Eprius Marcellus at Hist. 4.6.3–4.10.1, I show that the historian stages a confrontation between panegyrical and Realpolitik rhetoric about the Principate.
L. Spielberg
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Tacitus' Wonders

2022
This volume approaches the broad topic of wonder in the works of Tacitus, encompassing paradox, the marvellous and the admirable. Recent scholarship on these themes in Roman literature has tended to focus on poetic genres, with comparatively little attention paid to historiography: Tacitus, whose own judgments on what is worthy of note have often ...
McNamara, James (Dr.), Pagán, Victoria Emma   +1 more
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The Problem of Annals 15.44: On the Plinian Origin of Tacitus's Information on Christians

Journal of Early Christian History, 2023
This article contends with the multitude of suggestions that have been raised recently as to the origin of Tacitus's information on Christians and Jesus, and concludes that, contrary to much popular opinion, the theory that Tacitus's information is a ...
C. Hansen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Galba and Priam in Tacitus’ Histories *

, 2021
This note concerns the use (or non-use) of poetry in Roman historiography. Some recent attention has been devoted to Tacitus’ allusions to epic.1 One monograph in particular argues for an allusion in the historian’s account of the death of Galba (Hist. 1,
T. Power
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Agrippina the Elder and the Memory of Augustus in Tacitus’ Annals

Classical World, 2020
:This article argues that Tacitus’ presentation of the tense relationship between Tiberius and Agrippina the Elder is predicated upon differing interpretations of Augustus’ memory.
Caitlin C. Gillespie
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Condemning Domitian or Un-damning Themselves? Tacitus and Pliny on the Domitianic "Reign of Terror"

Illinois Classical Studies, 2020
:This article reconsiders two of our most important literary sources on Domitian: Pliny the Younger's Letters and Tacitus's Agricola. Although historians have either accepted Pliny's and Tacitus's portrayal of Domitian as a bloodthirsty tyrant or ...
Martin Szoke
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Seeing the Caesar in Germanicus: Reading Tacitus’ Annals with Lucan’s Bellum Civile

, 2020
The recognition of the similarities between Roman epic poetry and historiography have led to valuable studies such as Joseph’s analysis of the relationship between Lucan’s Bellum Civile and Tacitus’ Histories.
Megan M. Daly
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Domitianus Germanicus: Tacitus's Germania and the Memory of Domitian

Illinois Classical Studies, 2020
:For over fifteen years before the production of Tacitus's Germania, the title Germanicus had been prominent in Rome, claimed not only by Domitian but also by both Nerva and Trajan. Tacitus famously refutes military success in his account.
G. Andrews
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Suetonius' Tacitus

Journal of Roman Studies, 2014
AbstractThis article discusses the relationship of Tacitus to his younger contemporary Suetonius, challenging the view that Suetonius wrote a ‘supplement’ to the historian. Scholarly focus on this pair has led to the widespread belief that Suetonius had read Tacitus’Annals,which is unsupported by the evidence.
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Biochemical and histological characterization of succulent plant Tacitus bellus response to Fusarium verticillioides infection in vitro.

Journal of plant physiology, 2019
We present changes in Tacitus bellus antioxidative system that specifically correspond to subsequent phases of hemibiotroph Fusarium verticillioides infection revealed by histological analysis. T. bellus response to spore germination 6 h post inoculation
T. Antić, D. Janošević, V. Maksimović, M. Živić, S. Budimir, J. Glamočlija, A. Mitrović   +6 more
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