Holly Haynes

The College of New Jersey | TCNJ · Department of Philosophy, Religion and Classical Studies

C. S. VAN DEN BERG , THE WORLD OF TACITUS’ DIALOGUS DE ORATORIBUS: AESTHETICS AND EMPIRE IN ANCIENT ROME. Cambridge/NewYork: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii + 344. isbn 9781107020900. £65.00/US$110.00. - Volume 106 - Holly Haynes

According to Tacitus, Petronius' last act was to send to Nero a list of the latter's sexual partners and activities. Petronius' list in Annals 16 illuminates the structure of the Book, which conveys the tyranny of Nero's last years as a list of deaths and punishments. The nature of these lists—series of elements whose connection their authors decli...

Haynes analyses how Tacitus responds to the problems of speaking, writing, and remembering after a period of terror, comparing this response with modern parallels, such as the psychological aftermath of Pinochet's regime in Chile. In particular, the paper considers what the figure of Agricola as constructed by Tacitus might represent for the surviv...

American Journal of Philology 126.4 (2005) 630-632 Everybody loves a conspiracy, and Victoria Pagán has done scholarship on Roman historiography a favor by singling out five of the great ones from Roman history for close examination. The book accords one chapter each to Sallust's Bellum Catilinae, Livy's account of the Bacchanalian affair, Tacitus...

DamonC., Tacitus: Histories 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii + 324, 3 maps, ISBN 0-521-57072-7 (bound); 0-521-57822-1 (paper). £47.50 (bound); £16.95 (paper). - Volume 94 - Holly Haynes

The fact that vocabulum appears with far more frequency in Tacitus' texts than in any other author except for the encyclopaedists argues for his idiosyncratic usage of the term. This article argues that imperial discourse, nearly identical in structure and expression to that of the Republic but divorced from Republican connotations, provided an emp...

This book has provided accounts of political relationships in the Third World between followers of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism and Islam and the state since the mid-1970s. Earlier, in the 1960s, it was widely — and confidently — predicted that, following what seemed to be happening in Western Europe and North America as nations modernized, the...

This chapter discusses the accession of Vespasian and also looks at how Roman ideology enters a new phase—that of superstitio—in which Roman society legitimates the princeps as a military dictator by believing he has literal, godlike powers. Tacitus allows that of all the previous emperors, Vespasian was the only one who changed for the better, and...

This chapter introduces the main themes of this book through analysis of passages from the Histories and other parts of the Tacitean corpus. Each passage illustrates a facet of the relationship between Roman beliefs about reality during the early Empire and Tacitus's representation of those beliefs. The thesis is that Tacitus unifies the style and...

This introductory chapter begins with a brief discussion of emperor Napoleon's assessment of Tacitus. How Napoleon wielded his authority instantiates the authority itself. He embodied what he identified as a problem in Tacitean historiography: the uncomfortably close bond between style and content. The chapter then sets out the book's main theme, t...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1996 This dissertation interrogates the difficult narrative structure of Tacitus' Histories, tracking various narrative patterns in order to expose both the story of A. D. 69 and a metanarrative about the difficulty of writing historiography. The Histories produces a kind of anti-writing, a narrative absor...