The Tyrant Lists
Tacitus' Obituary of Petronius
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9320476 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Holly Haynes (0000-0003-1967-2491, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 131 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-100 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Journal of Philology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9475 • E-ISSN: 1086-3168 |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/ajp.0.0095 |
| OpenAlex | W2060246517 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 36 |
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 decline to spell out—mirrors the arbitrary nature of imperial power under Nero and Domitian, which punishes according to no legitimate judicial logic. Tacitus' interest in Petronius extends beyond the latter's list to his function as Nero's elegantiae arbiter , a seemingly superficial position that Tacitus suggests actually illustrates the important function of pleasure in the principate
Art · Literature · Obituary · Theology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy
Dissidence and Literature under Nero
A Companion to the Roman Empire
Augustus and the Power of Tradition
The Satyricon of Petronius
Of the Gaze as Objet Petit a
Petronius' 'Satyricon' and its Neronian Context
The Grand Pictorial Tradition of Roman Historical Representation during the Early Empire
Amateur Dramatics at the Court of Nero
Tacitus’ Historical Works
Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction
Constructing Autocracy
The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus
The Order of Things
Qvid Attinet Veritatem Per Interpretem Qvaerere? Interpretes and the Satyricon
The Power of Images
"Seminar on "The Purloined Letter
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire
Getting out of hell
A companion to Petronius
Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus
Tacitus/The World in Pieces
The History of Make-BelieveTacitus on Imperial Rome
Fatal Charades
Emperors and Gladiators
Petronius as Paradox
Tacitus and the Tacitean Tradition
The Search for the Ancient Novel
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |