Tacitus, the epic successor : Virgil, Lucan, and the narrative of civil war in the histories /

Allusions to the epic poets Virgil and Lucan in the writing of the Roman historian Tacitus (c. 55 - c. 120 C.E.) have long been noted. This monograph argues that Tacitus fashions himself as a rivaling literary successor to these poets; and that the emulative allusions to Virgil's Aeneid and Luc...

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Main Author: Joseph, Timothy A.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 345.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

Subjects:

Tacitus, Cornelius. > Annales.

Virgil.

Lucan, > 39-65.

Rome > Historiography.