Timothy A Joseph
Biographic Data
| ID | 5626993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy A Joseph |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy A |
| FAMILY NAME | Joseph |
| SIGNATURE | JOSEPH T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of the Holy Cross |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5109-1198 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Agrippina's (Un-)Augustan Anger
Book 12 of Tacitus’ Annals spotlights the ascent of Agrippina, the new wife of Claudius and mother of Nero, to the heights of power in imperial Rome. This paper examines how Tacitus deepens and complicates that characterization through an allusion to Ovid's depiction of Augustus in Tristia Book 2. The allusion, coming in Ann . 12.22 as Agrippina is consolidating her power, serves to cast her as a figure of awesome anger and authority on a par wit…
Thunder and Lament
Lucan and the Closing of the Maritime Moment
This chapter explores Lucan’s closure of a theme that is central to Livius Andronicus’s Odusia and Naevius’s Bellum Punicum, as well as Ennius’s Annales : Rome’s emerging control of the sea. Recent scholarly work has looked at the confluence of Rome’s “maritime moment” in the third century BCE and its epic moment, that is, the near simultaneous emergence of Roman ascendancy on the sea and Roman epic. This chapter proposes that the Pharsalia— in i…
Epic’s Last Lament
This chapter argues that Lucan follows Homer in his use of the common stylistic and thematic components of speeches of lament ( gooi ) and in his incorporation of an antiphony of commiserating voices; but that he also exercises aemulatio by forcefully moving the voice of lament from epic’s margins to its center, creating an antiphony that includes not only communal voices in the poem, but also the voice of the narrator himself, and even the inclu…
Conclusion
The Conclusion ties together the variety of ways Lucan seeks to uproot and close off the epic genre and then considers what he does make survive—that is, where there may be openings in this grand gesture of closure. With the story of Rome dead and now an object of lament, with that story transformed into the story of the place that killed Rome, what lives on is Pharsalia nostra. This is the story of a dead thing that lives on; and Lucan’s persist…
The Pharsalia and the Loss of Nostos
This chapter builds on the understanding of nostos as a binding master trope in the Odyssey , and as an end accomplished by hero (Odysseus) and poet (Homer) alike. It argues that Lucan crafts the journeys of each of his central characters—Caesar, Cato, and Pompey—as reversals of Odysseus’s nostos , each in a distinct way, but with none reaching home in the poem, and each conspicuously failing to achieve the spousal reunion that is so central to O…
The Intertextuality of Horror (on A. Estèves, Poétique de l’horreur dans l’épopée et l’historiographie latines)
tudy of the proximity (so Quint.. . ) of Latin epic and historiography has flourished over the last thirty to forty years, with scholarly work concentrating especially on allusions and networks of allusions among texts in the two genres.Estves' (hereafter 'E.') monograph takes a novel and fruitful approach to the matter, eyeing the intersection of the genres through the prism of horror, with a focus on passages in epic and historiography that des…
East and West in the Histories of Herodotus and Tacitus
In this chapter, the author explores the kinship further, with a concentration on Tacitus’ engagement with another Herodotean theme, that of the great struggle between East and West. He focuses on Tacitus’ employment of this dichotomy in his Histories, his account of the civil wars of 69 ce, the “Year of the Four Emperors.” Before turning to Tacitus’ Histories, a short recapitulation of the issue of East versus West in Herodotus’ Histories is in …
Caesar in Vergil and Lucan
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Pharsalia as Rome's "Day of Doom" in Lucan
Lucan adopts the topos of the "day of doom" from epic predecessors such as Homer and Vergil and employs it on a grand scale, across his poem, for the day of Pharsalia. Lucan makes Pharsalia an all-consuming and collective doomsday, with cosmic forebodings and repercussions. The appreciation of this motif in the poem illuminates our understanding of the disputed phrase Pharsalia nostra / uiuet (9.985–6), which acts as both a polemical gesture towa…
History as Epic
Preliminary Material
General Index
“Savage Even in Its Peace”
This book considers the Roman historian Tacitus’ (c. 55 – c. 120 C.E.) use of the language and narrative techniques of the epic poets, in particular Virgil and Lucan, for his presentation of the Roman civil wars of 68–70 C.E. in the Histories.
Tacitus the Epic Successor
This book considers the Roman historian Tacitus’ (c. 55 – c. 120 C.E.) use of the language and narrative techniques of the epic poets, in particular Virgil and Lucan, for his presentation of the Roman civil wars of 68–70 C.E. in the Histories.
Index of Passages Discussed
The Battles of Cremona
The Deaths of Galba and the Desecration of Rome
Otho’s Exemplary Response
This book considers the Roman historian Tacitus’ (c. 55 – c. 120 C.E.) use of the language and narrative techniques of the epic poets, in particular Virgil and Lucan, for his presentation of the Roman civil wars of 68–70 C.E. in the Histories.
Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography
Historians often refer to past events which took place prior to their narrative's proper past - that is, they refer to a 'plupast'. This past embedded in the past can be evoked by characters as well as by the historian in his own voice. It can bring into play other texts, but can also draw on lieux de mémoire or on material objects. The articles assembled in this volume explore the manifold forms of the plupast in Greek and Roman historians from …
Tacitus the Epic Successor
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 Lucan's Bellum Civile in Books 1–3 of his inaugural historiographical work, the Histories, complement and build upon each other, and contribute significantly …
Chapter Nine. AC Rursus Nova Laborum Facies
This chapter discusses 'repetitive' passage in the Histories 3.26-34, the account of the Flavian defeat of the Vitellian forces outside Cremona (3.26-29), and the subsequent sack of that city (3.30-34). At several points in this passage, Tacitus imports language from Virgil's prototypical Roman wars, the Trojan War of Aeneid 2 and the LatinWar of Aeneid 7-12, the latter of which Virgil presents as a repetition of the former. In this way the chapt…
Tacitus the Epic Successor
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 Lucan's Bellum Civile in Books 1–3 of his inaugural historiographical work, the Histories, complement and build upon each other, and contribute significantly …
Pharsalia as Rome's "Day of Doom" in Lucan
Lucan adopts the topos of the "day of doom" from epic predecessors such as Homer and Vergil and employs it on a grand scale, across his poem, for the day of Pharsalia. Lucan makes Pharsalia an all-consuming and collective doomsday, with cosmic forebodings and repercussions. The appreciation of this motif in the poem illuminates our understanding of the disputed phrase Pharsalia nostra / uiuet (9.985–6), which acts as both a polemical gesture towa…
Chapter Nine. AC Rursus Nova Laborum Facies
This chapter discusses 'repetitive' passage in the Histories 3.26-34, the account of the Flavian defeat of the Vitellian forces outside Cremona (3.26-29), and the subsequent sack of that city (3.30-34). At several points in this passage, Tacitus imports language from Virgil's prototypical Roman wars, the Trojan War of Aeneid 2 and the LatinWar of Aeneid 7-12, the latter of which Virgil presents as a repetition of the former. In this way the chapt…
History as Epic
Preliminary Material
General Index
“Savage Even in Its Peace”
This book considers the Roman historian Tacitus’ (c. 55 – c. 120 C.E.) use of the language and narrative techniques of the epic poets, in particular Virgil and Lucan, for his presentation of the Roman civil wars of 68–70 C.E. in the Histories.
Tacitus the Epic Successor
This book considers the Roman historian Tacitus’ (c. 55 – c. 120 C.E.) use of the language and narrative techniques of the epic poets, in particular Virgil and Lucan, for his presentation of the Roman civil wars of 68–70 C.E. in the Histories.
Index of Passages Discussed
The Battles of Cremona
The Deaths of Galba and the Desecration of Rome
Otho’s Exemplary Response
This book considers the Roman historian Tacitus’ (c. 55 – c. 120 C.E.) use of the language and narrative techniques of the epic poets, in particular Virgil and Lucan, for his presentation of the Roman civil wars of 68–70 C.E. in the Histories.
Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography
Historians often refer to past events which took place prior to their narrative's proper past - that is, they refer to a 'plupast'. This past embedded in the past can be evoked by characters as well as by the historian in his own voice. It can bring into play other texts, but can also draw on lieux de mémoire or on material objects. The articles assembled in this volume explore the manifold forms of the plupast in Greek and Roman historians from …
Tacitus the Epic Successor
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 Lucan's Bellum Civile in Books 1–3 of his inaugural historiographical work, the Histories, complement and build upon each other, and contribute significantly …
Caesar in Vergil and Lucan
A summary 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.
Pharsalia as Rome's "Day of Doom" in Lucan
Lucan adopts the topos of the "day of doom" from epic predecessors such as Homer and Vergil and employs it on a grand scale, across his poem, for the day of Pharsalia. Lucan makes Pharsalia an all-consuming and collective doomsday, with cosmic forebodings and repercussions. The appreciation of this motif in the poem illuminates our understanding of the disputed phrase Pharsalia nostra / uiuet (9.985–6), which acts as both a polemical gesture towa…
East and West in the Histories of Herodotus and Tacitus
In this chapter, the author explores the kinship further, with a concentration on Tacitus’ engagement with another Herodotean theme, that of the great struggle between East and West. He focuses on Tacitus’ employment of this dichotomy in his Histories, his account of the civil wars of 69 ce, the “Year of the Four Emperors.” Before turning to Tacitus’ Histories, a short recapitulation of the issue of East versus West in Herodotus’ Histories is in …
Thunder and Lament
Lucan and the Closing of the Maritime Moment
This chapter explores Lucan’s closure of a theme that is central to Livius Andronicus’s Odusia and Naevius’s Bellum Punicum, as well as Ennius’s Annales : Rome’s emerging control of the sea. Recent scholarly work has looked at the confluence of Rome’s “maritime moment” in the third century BCE and its epic moment, that is, the near simultaneous emergence of Roman ascendancy on the sea and Roman epic. This chapter proposes that the Pharsalia— in i…
Epic’s Last Lament
This chapter argues that Lucan follows Homer in his use of the common stylistic and thematic components of speeches of lament ( gooi ) and in his incorporation of an antiphony of commiserating voices; but that he also exercises aemulatio by forcefully moving the voice of lament from epic’s margins to its center, creating an antiphony that includes not only communal voices in the poem, but also the voice of the narrator himself, and even the inclu…
Conclusion
The Conclusion ties together the variety of ways Lucan seeks to uproot and close off the epic genre and then considers what he does make survive—that is, where there may be openings in this grand gesture of closure. With the story of Rome dead and now an object of lament, with that story transformed into the story of the place that killed Rome, what lives on is Pharsalia nostra. This is the story of a dead thing that lives on; and Lucan’s persist…
The Pharsalia and the Loss of Nostos
This chapter builds on the understanding of nostos as a binding master trope in the Odyssey , and as an end accomplished by hero (Odysseus) and poet (Homer) alike. It argues that Lucan crafts the journeys of each of his central characters—Caesar, Cato, and Pompey—as reversals of Odysseus’s nostos , each in a distinct way, but with none reaching home in the poem, and each conspicuously failing to achieve the spousal reunion that is so central to O…
The Intertextuality of Horror (on A. Estèves, Poétique de l’horreur dans l’épopée et l’historiographie latines)
tudy of the proximity (so Quint.. . ) of Latin epic and historiography has flourished over the last thirty to forty years, with scholarly work concentrating especially on allusions and networks of allusions among texts in the two genres.Estves' (hereafter 'E.') monograph takes a novel and fruitful approach to the matter, eyeing the intersection of the genres through the prism of horror, with a focus on passages in epic and historiography that des…
Agrippina's (Un-)Augustan Anger
Book 12 of Tacitus’ Annals spotlights the ascent of Agrippina, the new wife of Claudius and mother of Nero, to the heights of power in imperial Rome. This paper examines how Tacitus deepens and complicates that characterization through an allusion to Ovid's depiction of Augustus in Tristia Book 2. The allusion, coming in Ann . 12.22 as Agrippina is consolidating her power, serves to cast her as a figure of awesome anger and authority on a par wit…
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