W Jeffrey Tatum
Biographic Data
| ID | 1100123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Jeffrey Tatum |
| GIVEN NAMES | W Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Tatum |
| SIGNATURE | TATUM W J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Noble Ruin
This book narrates the life and career of Mark Antony, which it sets against its contemporary social and cultural background. The origins and rise of the Antonii are also discussed. Topics include: the nature of the Roman aristocracy; Roman civic values; Roman elections; Roman education and high culture; oratory and invective in Roman society; Roman imperialism and the Romans’ conception of their empire; provincial administration, including the o…
Clarendon Ancient History Series: Quintus Cicero: A Brief Handbook on Canvassing for Office: Commentariolum Petitionis
Rome's annual elections were central to the relationship between its citizenry and political leadership, and canvassing for office played no small part in their outcomes. This brief handbook, composed by Quintus Cicero for his elder brother, the famous orator and statesman Marcus, is our fullest account of campaigning for office in republican Rome, incorporating candid advice on how best to mobilize political support from voters of every social c…
Intermediaries in Political Communication
Factio (Roman Republic)
Factio , in Roman usage, is ordinarily a pejorative word referring to political cooperation aimed at unsavory purposes. It is never used by the Romans in referring neutrally to any recognized political alliance which engaged in an appropriate contest for leadership in the state. Modern historians of Rome not infrequently employ the word otherwise, as if factio were a Latin equivalent of faction .
Why Is Valerius Flaccus a Quindecimvir
‘Valerius Flaccus knows how to write with elegant precision.’ – R. Syme, Tacitus (Oxford, 1958), 89. Phoebe, mone, si Cumaeae mihi conscia uatis 5 stat casta cortina domo, si laurea digna fronte uiret ... In these lines, as critics have long recognized, resides evidence for identifying Valerius Flaccus as a quindecimuir sacris faciundis . Emphasis is placed on the tripod emblematic of this sacred office which is here intimately associated with ex…
Another Look at Suetonius’ Titus
This chapter analyses Suetonius’ briefest biography in the Caesars, that of the emperor Titus, which is often seen as structurally anomalous and favourably one-sided. Suetonius’ account of Titus is compared with passages in Tacitus and Dio, whose similar judgements on the emperor’s character indicate that the earlier sources attributed the good reputation of Titus’ reign to fortune, a perspective that Suetonius implicitly combats. Dio’s negative …
Campaign Rhetoric
Roman elections, and the canvassing that preceded them, were the traditional environment for an annual collision between the paired and dynamic principles of the republic, the people’s majesty and the aristocracy’s authority. Though volatile, this political physics directed itself toward consensus and stability, even if at a very real cost to a dispensable few, inasmuch as the indisputable proof of the meritocratic element in Rome’s aristocracy w…
Still Waters Run Deep
In his Life of Aemilius Paulus , Plutarch (quite naturally) rehearses the initial phase of Aemilius Paulus' campaign against Perseus, when the Macedonian had occupied a position on the northern bank of the river Elpeus so strongly fortified that any direct assault could only be disastrous for the attackers. Aemilius instead resorted to a cunning strategy of synchronized surgical strikes, while a detachment, the departure and direction of which we…
Caelius Rufus, Marcus
Marcus Caelius Rufus (88 or 87–48 BCE ), born at Interamnia, was the son of a Roman knight ( eques ), and so entered politics as a new man.
Choice Word and Measured Phrase in Caesar, Fragment 1 (Courtney)
Cicero as Evidence
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 191 key figure in the government of the state, with the opportunity for a second consulship and further reforms. In the struggle that Caesar faced, Billows makes crystal clear where, in his own view, right and justice were ranked. He believes that Caesar was forced into a fight by the optimates. His opponents were “extremist oligarchs” (205) determined to suppress reform, and to use force to do so if necessary. Billows…
Social Commentary and Political Invective
This chapter contains section titled: Roman Invective Catullan Invective Caesar and the First Trimvirate Seek Noble Friends Conclusion
Always I am Caesar
List of Illustrations. Maps. Introduction. 1 Caesar the Politician: Power and the People in Republican Rome. 2 Conquests and Glories, Triumphs and Spoils: Caesar and the Ideology of Roman Imperialism. 3 Pontifex Maximus: Caesar and the Manipulation of Civic Religion. 4 The Stones of Rome: Caesar and the Sociology of Roman Public Building. 5 My True and Honourable Wife: Cornelia and Pompeia, Calpurnia and Cleopatra. 6 Great Men and Impersonal Grou…
Q. Cicero, Commentariolum Petitionis 33
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The Patrician Tribune
Disputes and Democracy
Lucretius, De rerum natura, 1, 199-204
Tatum W. Jeffrey. Lucretius, De rerum natura, 1, 199-204. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 67, 1998. pp. 225-230
Xenophon and the History of His Times
Beginnings and Ends 2. Utopia and Panhellenism: Xenophon, the Anabasis and the Spartans in Asia 3. Ideal Community, Ideal Leader: Paradigm as History 4. Xenophon, the Divine and the Crimes of Sparta Conclusion Bibliography
Myth and Poetry in Lucretius
Lucretius
Friendship, politics, and literature in Catullus
To the extent that one subscribes to the proposition, by now a virtual principle of criticism (at least in some circles), that literary texts constitute sites for the negotiation, often vigorous, of power relations within a society, the reader of Catullus can hardly avoid some consideration of the poet's attitude toward contemporary political matters. It is a subject on which two principal lines of thought can be traced. Mommsen argued that Catul…
Cicero and the Roman Republic
The Lex Papiria de Dedicationibus
The Poverty of the Claudii Pulchri
‘In historical composition’, said Samuel Johnson, ‘all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent’. Perhaps so, but even if the historian must appear dull and plodding next to his more profound and shimmering brethren, the philologists and – of course – the literary critics, still he must be granted at least one virtue in plenty and that virtue is scepticism. Especially nowadays. While not quite yet ready to surrender his province to the…
Cicero, the Elder Curio, and the Titinia Case
Twice in his rhetorical treatises (Brutus 217; Orator 129) Cicero makes reference to the trial of Titinia Cottae1), in which trial Cicero, who spoke in Titinia's behalf, won a resounding victory over no less a figure than C. Scribonius Curio (cos. 76 B.C.)2). While next to nothing is known of the case3), Cicero clearly took considerable pride in his success, so much so that at Orat. 129 he treated his speech pro Titinia as comparable to his prose…
Friendship, politics, and literature in Catullus
To the extent that one subscribes to the proposition, by now a virtual principle of criticism (at least in some circles), that literary texts constitute sites for the negotiation, often vigorous, of power relations within a society, the reader of Catullus can hardly avoid some consideration of the poet's attitude toward contemporary political matters. It is a subject on which two principal lines of thought can be traced. Mommsen argued that Catul…
The Lex Papiria de Dedicationibus
Choice Word and Measured Phrase in Caesar, Fragment 1 (Courtney)
Disputes and Democracy
The Patrician Tribune
Cicero and the Bona Dea Scandal
Always I am Caesar
List of Illustrations. Maps. Introduction. 1 Caesar the Politician: Power and the People in Republican Rome. 2 Conquests and Glories, Triumphs and Spoils: Caesar and the Ideology of Roman Imperialism. 3 Pontifex Maximus: Caesar and the Manipulation of Civic Religion. 4 The Stones of Rome: Caesar and the Sociology of Roman Public Building. 5 My True and Honourable Wife: Cornelia and Pompeia, Calpurnia and Cleopatra. 6 Great Men and Impersonal Grou…
The Epitaph of Publius Scipio Reconsidered
In her recent discussion of ILLRP 311 Kirsteen Moir draws attention to the discrepancy between the epitaph's apparent claim that young Publius had before him a brilliant career, had he but survived, and the description which Cicero provides of Africanus' son, Publius, who is usually identified, with varying degrees of conviction, as the subject of this inscription. As Moir points out, the son of Africanus, though remarkably erudite, was incapacit…
The Presocratics in Book One of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
Cicero, ad Att. 1.14.5
Constans, who defends the unanimous reading of the manuscripts, explains ‘tertium’ as a reference to two previous senatus consulta which Fufius did not veto ( ad Att . 1.13.3). The problem with this interpretation is that Fufius is not even mentioned in the passage Constans cites; in fact, this letter marks Fufius' first appearance in the correspondence. On the basis of what is preserved it is difficult to see how Atticus could have divined such …
The Epitaph of Publius Scipio Reconsidered
In her recent discussion of ILLRP 311 Kirsteen Moir draws attention to the discrepancy between the epitaph's apparent claim that young Publius had before him a brilliant career, had he but survived, and the description which Cicero provides of Africanus' son, Publius, who is usually identified, with varying degrees of conviction, as the subject of this inscription. As Moir points out, the son of Africanus, though remarkably erudite, was incapacit…
Cicero's Opposition to the Lex Clodia de Collegiis
In March 59 Caesar and Pompey presided over the adoption of P. Clodius Pulcher into a plebeian family, thereby rendering the former patrician eligible for the tribunate. The immediate purpose of the dynasts' action was to silence the contumacious criticism of Cicero, whose Pro Antonio had gravely offended Caesar. And the gesture was effective: for a time at least, Cicero withdrew to his country estates. For Cicero – like everyone else in Rome – a…
Cicero and the Bona Dea Scandal
Cicero, the Elder Curio, and the Titinia Case
Twice in his rhetorical treatises (Brutus 217; Orator 129) Cicero makes reference to the trial of Titinia Cottae1), in which trial Cicero, who spoke in Titinia's behalf, won a resounding victory over no less a figure than C. Scribonius Curio (cos. 76 B.C.)2). While next to nothing is known of the case3), Cicero clearly took considerable pride in his success, so much so that at Orat. 129 he treated his speech pro Titinia as comparable to his prose…
The Poverty of the Claudii Pulchri
‘In historical composition’, said Samuel Johnson, ‘all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent’. Perhaps so, but even if the historian must appear dull and plodding next to his more profound and shimmering brethren, the philologists and – of course – the literary critics, still he must be granted at least one virtue in plenty and that virtue is scepticism. Especially nowadays. While not quite yet ready to surrender his province to the…
The Lex Papiria de Dedicationibus
Cicero and the Roman Republic
Xenophon and the History of His Times
Beginnings and Ends 2. Utopia and Panhellenism: Xenophon, the Anabasis and the Spartans in Asia 3. Ideal Community, Ideal Leader: Paradigm as History 4. Xenophon, the Divine and the Crimes of Sparta Conclusion Bibliography
Myth and Poetry in Lucretius
Lucretius
Friendship, politics, and literature in Catullus
To the extent that one subscribes to the proposition, by now a virtual principle of criticism (at least in some circles), that literary texts constitute sites for the negotiation, often vigorous, of power relations within a society, the reader of Catullus can hardly avoid some consideration of the poet's attitude toward contemporary political matters. It is a subject on which two principal lines of thought can be traced. Mommsen argued that Catul…
Lucretius, De rerum natura, 1, 199-204
Tatum W. Jeffrey. Lucretius, De rerum natura, 1, 199-204. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 67, 1998. pp. 225-230
Disputes and Democracy
The Patrician Tribune
Q. Cicero, Commentariolum Petitionis 33
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Social Commentary and Political Invective
This chapter contains section titled: Roman Invective Catullan Invective Caesar and the First Trimvirate Seek Noble Friends Conclusion
Always I am Caesar
List of Illustrations. Maps. Introduction. 1 Caesar the Politician: Power and the People in Republican Rome. 2 Conquests and Glories, Triumphs and Spoils: Caesar and the Ideology of Roman Imperialism. 3 Pontifex Maximus: Caesar and the Manipulation of Civic Religion. 4 The Stones of Rome: Caesar and the Sociology of Roman Public Building. 5 My True and Honourable Wife: Cornelia and Pompeia, Calpurnia and Cleopatra. 6 Great Men and Impersonal Grou…
Choice Word and Measured Phrase in Caesar, Fragment 1 (Courtney)
Cicero as Evidence
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 191 key figure in the government of the state, with the opportunity for a second consulship and further reforms. In the struggle that Caesar faced, Billows makes crystal clear where, in his own view, right and justice were ranked. He believes that Caesar was forced into a fight by the optimates. His opponents were “extremist oligarchs” (205) determined to suppress reform, and to use force to do so if necessary. Billows…
Caelius Rufus, Marcus
Marcus Caelius Rufus (88 or 87–48 BCE ), born at Interamnia, was the son of a Roman knight ( eques ), and so entered politics as a new man.
Campaign Rhetoric
Roman elections, and the canvassing that preceded them, were the traditional environment for an annual collision between the paired and dynamic principles of the republic, the people’s majesty and the aristocracy’s authority. Though volatile, this political physics directed itself toward consensus and stability, even if at a very real cost to a dispensable few, inasmuch as the indisputable proof of the meritocratic element in Rome’s aristocracy w…
Still Waters Run Deep
In his Life of Aemilius Paulus , Plutarch (quite naturally) rehearses the initial phase of Aemilius Paulus' campaign against Perseus, when the Macedonian had occupied a position on the northern bank of the river Elpeus so strongly fortified that any direct assault could only be disastrous for the attackers. Aemilius instead resorted to a cunning strategy of synchronized surgical strikes, while a detachment, the departure and direction of which we…
Another Look at Suetonius’ Titus
This chapter analyses Suetonius’ briefest biography in the Caesars, that of the emperor Titus, which is often seen as structurally anomalous and favourably one-sided. Suetonius’ account of Titus is compared with passages in Tacitus and Dio, whose similar judgements on the emperor’s character indicate that the earlier sources attributed the good reputation of Titus’ reign to fortune, a perspective that Suetonius implicitly combats. Dio’s negative …
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