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Tacitus und die Literatur der exitus illustrium virorum

F. Α Marx

Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 92 (1-4):83-103 (1937)

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Tacitus, Stoic exempla, and the praecipuum munus annalium.William Turpin - 2008 - Classical Antiquity 27 (2):359-404.details Tacitus' claim that history should inspire good deeds and deter bad ones should be taken seriously: his exempla are supposed to help his readers think through their own moral difficulties. This approach to history is found in historians with clear connections to Stoicism, and in Stoic philosophers like Seneca. It is no coincidence that Tacitus is particularly interested in the behavior of Stoics like Thrasea Paetus, Barea Soranus, and Seneca himself. They, and even non-Stoic characters like Epicharis and Petronius, exemplify (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
Becoming Tacitus: Significance and Inconsequentiality in the Prologue of Agricola.Dylan Sailor - 2004 - Classical Antiquity 23 (1):139-177.details I argue that the prologue of Tacitus' Agricola is at pains to maintain for the work the option to be important or to be inconsequential. The goal of this effort is to anticipate a spectrum of possible receptions: if the work is welcomed by its audiences, it can serve as the first step in a prestigious literary career; if it meets with indifference or hostility, Tacitus' already-existing social self can find protection behind the claims to limited importance. In the first (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
A Cock for Asclepius.Glenn W. Most - 1993 - Classical Quarterly 43 (1):96-111.details In any list of famous last words, Socrates' are likely to figure near the top. Details of the final moments of celebrities tend anyway to exert a peculiar fascination upon the rest of us: life's very contingency provokes a need to see lives nevertheless as meaningful organic wholes, defined as such precisely by their final closure; so that even the most trivial aspects of their ending can come to seem bearers of profound significance, soliciting moral reflections apparently not less urgent (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 16 citations
The Prefect's Dilemma and the Date of the Octavia.Patrick Kragelund - 1988 - Classical Quarterly 38 (02):492-.details The long-awaited publication of Otto Zwierlein's edition of Seneca's Tragedies provides a welcome opportunity to present a few observations on the penultimate scene of pseudo-Seneca's Octavia . The scene in question features Nero quarrelling with his Guard Prefect over the fate of the Empress Octavia. In this altercation there are three textual points which have for long been in dispute. The first section of the article is concerned with these, favouring an emendation discarded in the new Oxford edition, but questioning (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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