The mirror of Tacitus? : selves and others in the Tiberian books of the 'Annals'
This thesis considers the geographical and chronological forms of âmirroringâ that offer a way of reading 'Annals' 1-6. It looks at how Tacitusâ depictions of non-Romans reflect back on Rome, and at the echoes of Romeâs past and future that can be discerned within his description of Tiberiusâ principate. After an introduction that discusses key thematic and methodological questions, Chapter 1 shows that Tiberiusâ accession and the Pannonian and German mutinies described in 'Annals' 1 echo Tacitusâ account in 'Histories' 1 of events of AD 69. Moreover, when the Romans attempt to conquer Germany, the Germansâ resistance to this and to other efforts to rule them shows up Roman responses to civil war and autocracy. Chapter 2 begins by examining potential similarities between Roman and both Parthian and Armenian history, and then focuses on Germanicusâ voyage in the east, recounted in 'Annals' 2. His actions associate him with many late republican and early imperial Roman figures, which suggests that there are continuities between those two eras. Chapter 3 extends this theme by discussing the echoes of Sallust and Caesar in the central books of the Tiberian hexad. Intertexts with Sallustâs 'Bellum
Low, Katherine Anna
Latin ; Italic literatures, i.e. Latin ; History of the ancient world ; history of ancient Rome ; ancient historiography ; Roman historiography ; Tacitus ; early principate ; civil war
The mirror of Tacitus? : selves and others in the Tiberian books of the 'Annals'. This thesis considers the geographical and chronological forms of âmirroringâ that offer a way of reading 'Annals' 1-6. It looks at how Tacitusâ depictions of non-Romans reflect back on Rome, and at the echoes of Romeâs past and future that can be discerned within his description of Tiberiusâ principate. After an introduction that discusses key thematic and methodological questions, Chapter 1 shows that Tiberiusâ accession and the Pannonian and German mutinies described in 'Annals' 1 echo Tacitusâ account in 'Histories' 1 of events of AD 69. Moreover, when the Romans attempt to conquer Germany, the Germansâ resistance to this and to other efforts to rule them shows up Roman responses to civil war and autocracy. Chapter 2 begins by examining potential similarities between Roman and both Parthian and Armenian history, and then focuses on Germanicusâ voyage in the east, recounted in 'Annals' 2. His actions associate him with many late republican and early imperial Roman figures, which suggests that there are continuities between those two eras. Chapter 3 extends this theme by discussing the echoes of Sallust and Caesar in the central books of the Tiberian hexad. Intertexts with Sallustâs 'Bellum
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