Allusive Prodigia
Caesar's Comets in Neronian Rome (Tac. Ann. 15.47)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11776347 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lauren Donovan Ginsberg (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 150 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 231-249 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TAPA (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2575-7180 • E-ISSN: 2575-7199 |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/apa.2020.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W3021159698 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This paper examines Tacitus's notice of a comet and lightning at the close of his account of 64 c.e. I argue that these prodigia allude to Vergil's account of the chaos after Julius Caesar's death at the end of Georgics 1 and to Lucan's account of Caesar's invasion in Bellum Civile 1. Tacitus capitalizes on the prodigies of Neronian Rome, on the intertextual tradition of Caesarean prodigies in early imperial literature, and on his annalistic framework to draw important connections between Nero and Caesar, and between the civil wars of the Republic and the conspiracies of Neronian Rome
Art · Literature · Notice · Political science · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |