Obituaries in Tacitus

Syme, Ronald

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“…This is not surprising, since the early history of Rome is the story of the collective accomplishments of the viri who helped Rome to achieve gradual greatness, not of the deeds of outstanding individuals, as Livy himself notes contrasting the crowd of capable Romans with the individual success of Alexander the Great (9.17-18). The numbers are certainly small when compared with the more than twenty obituaries in the surviving portion of Tacitus' Annals, 6 but it is clear that the numbers increase from the third decade. The fragments and Periochae indicate that there were undoubtedly more funeral notices in Livy's later books, since they include comments on Masinissa (Per.…”

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Livy's Death Notices

Pomeroy¹

1988

Greece & Rome

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“…26.2), Livy will not ignore the greatness of his subject. Tribute is paid to a man who might have been memorable anywhere except Rome, where the freedom of the state overshadowed the individual (hunc exitum habuit vir, nisi in libera civitate natus esset, memorabilis, 6.20.14).…”

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Livy's Death Notices

Pomeroy¹

1988

Greece & Rome

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“…On direct speech in the Annals, see supra n.6. The incident was accepted as plausibly taken from senatorial acta by Syme 1958: 281-82. Goodyear 1981, whilst dismissing the claim that the speech might rely on the acta senatus, nevertheless believed that something of the substance of the speech might have been transmitted.…”

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Tacitus, Tiberius and Augustus

Cowan

2009

Classical Antiquity

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“…In the first place Tacitus' account of the rebellion, while superior to that of Dio, is not entirely accurate; he leaves out details and gets the date wrong in particular. 90 In the passage in question his main concern is with prodigies and portents; comparison with Dio's list 91 suggests the possibility that both accounts may go back to the same source. In such a context one wonders whether an accurate inventory of monuments at Camulodunum can be expected.…”

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The Temple of Divus Claudius at 'Camulodunum'

Fishwick¹

1995

Britannia

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The problem of Claudius' temple at Camulodunum is one of those hardy perennials where insufficient evidence makes a final solution in practice hardly possible; anyone laying the law down on the subject does so at his peril'. 1 Meagre archaeological data that add up to few hard facts, a sneer by Seneca on which a whole case has been built, obscure terminology in a solitary half-sentence of Tacitus-all the familiar knots in the problem are brought into play by C.J. Simpson in his recent reappraisal of the enigmatic temple. 2 That there are enough loose ends to justify continuing debate is hardly in contention. Whether Simpson succeeds in demonstrating that a temple dedicated to the living emperor Claudius was already in existence at the colony by that emperor's death in A.D. 54 is another matter. A rejoinder provides in any event a welcome opportunity to consolidate a thesis that has been the focus of vigorous discussion for well over twenty years. The argument can best be structured on the same lines as Simpson's paper, with some modifications where he has placed relevant material elsewhere. SENECA, APOCOLOCYNTOSIS VIII.3 'Deus fieri vult: parum est quod templum in Britannia habet, quod (huncj nunc barbari colunt et ut(!) deum orant MOROU EUILATOU TUCHEIN.' Simpson begins by stating that the simple reading of Seneca is what is of greatest significance. On his interpretation Seneca's plain meaning is that Claudius was already the recipient of cult at the temple by 'the time of the mise-en-scene of Seneca's jibe'. The view is affirmed rather than argued but Simpson adds that, to be topical, Seneca's ludus will probably have been composed before, and presented on, the Saturnalia of 17 December A.D. 54. 3 The dramatic date of the composition would clearly not have allowed sufficient interval for news of the emperor's death (at first kept secret) to have reached Britain or for the barbarians to have been 'persuaded to pay cult to Claudius in the short

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Obituaries in Tacitus

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Livy's Death Notices

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