@book{OPUS4-63165,
  title     = {Tacitus' Wonders},
  editor    = {McNamara, James and Pag{\´a}n, Victoria Emma},
  publisher = {Bloomsbury},
  address   = {London},
  isbn      = {978-1-350-24172-5},
  doi       = {10.5040/9781350241763},
  pages     = {viii, 281},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {This volume approaches the broad topic of wonder in the works of Tacitus, encompassing paradox, the marvellous and the admirable. Recent scholarship on these themes in Roman literature has tended to focus on poetic genres, with comparatively little attention paid to historiography: Tacitus, whose own judgments on what is worthy of note have often differed in interesting ways from the preoccupations of his readers, is a fascinating focal point for this complementary perspective. Scholarship on Tacitus has to date remained largely marked by a divide between the search for veracity - as validated by modern historiographical standards - and literary approaches, and as a result wonders have either been ignored as unfit for an account of history or have been deprived of their force by being interpreted as valid only within the text. While the modern ideal of historiographical objectivity tends to result in striving for consistent heuristic and methodological frameworks, works as varied as Tacitus' Histories, Annals and opera minora can hardly be prefaced with a statement of methodology broad enough to escape misrepresenting their diversity. In our age of specialization a streamlined methodological framework is a virtue, but it should not be assumed that Tacitus had similar priorities, and indeed the Histories and Annals deserve to be approached with openness towards the variety of perspectives that a tradition as rich as Latin historiographical prose can include within its scope. This collection proposes ways to reconcile the divide between history and historiography by exploring contestable moments in the text that challenge readers to judge and interpret for themselves, with individual chapters drawing on a range of interpretive approaches that mirror the wealth of authorial and reader-specific responses in play.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{McNamara2021,
  author    = {McNamara, James},
  title     = {Lost in Germania},
  series = {Unspoken Rome: Absences in Latin Texts},
  journal   = {Unspoken Rome: Absences in Latin Texts},
  editor    = {Geue, Tom and Giusti, Elena},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
  address   = {Cambridge},
  isbn      = {978-11-0884-304-1},
  doi       = {https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108913843.012},
  pages     = {201 -- 218},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Tacitus' Germania is notable for its absences: lacking a preface and programmatic statements, and being the only ethnographic monograph to have survived from Greco-Roman antiquity, readers have often leapt to fill in its perceived blanks. This chapter aims at redressing the effects of overdetermined readings by interpreting the text's absences as significant in their own right.},
  language  = {en}
}
@incollection{McNamara2021,
  author    = {McNamara, James},
  title     = {I confini del mondo nell'Agricola di Tacito},
  series = {Centro e periferia nella letteratura latina di Roma imperiale},
  booktitle = {Centro e periferia nella letteratura latina di Roma imperiale},
  publisher = {Forum editrice universitaria udinese},
  address   = {Udine},
  isbn      = {978-88-3283-246-4},
  pages     = {35 -- 52},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {This article analyses a narrative pattern in Tacitus' Agricola dealing with the crossing of natural boundaries. First it discusses imaginary geography and the connections between the bounds of nature and the psychology of Agricola and his soldiers. It then turns to a discus- sion of paradoxes inherent in how the bounds of nature are handled, and discusses several traditions on which Tacitus draws. In declama- tion the edges of the earth represent a mystery and a danger, while the philosophical topos of the flight of the mind, as exemplified by Lucretius' praises of Epicurus, offers a positive scheme in which breaking the bounds of nature is a metaphor for major intellectual achievement. The implications of Agricola's identity as a provincial Roman are discussed, along with the glimpses of an imaginary geog- raphy in which Rome is de-centred. Finally the article considers how Tacitus inverts a literary tradition of associating the periphery of the earth with death and the underworld.},
  language  = {it}
}
@book{Petersen2021,
  author    = {Petersen, Jens},
  title     = {Marcel Proust und Tacitus},
  publisher = {de Gruyter},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {978-3-11-064703-7},
  doi       = {10.1515/9783110647440},
  pages     = {IX, 285},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Marcel Proust zitiert und erw{\"a}hnt Tacitus nicht nur in Briefen und seinem unvollendet gebliebenen 'Jean Santeuil', sondern vor allem auch in seinem Hauptwerks 'A la recherche du temps perdu'. Der Autor versucht zu zeigen, dass diese Erw{\"a}hnungen in die Mitte des Proustschen Werkes f{\"u}hren. Erstes Schlaglicht auf den 100. Todestag Prousts 2022 Auf dem neuesten Stand der Forschung},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{McNamara2020,
  author    = {McNamara, James},
  title     = {The Portrayal of Germani in German Latin Textbooks, 1989-2009},
  series = {Syllecta Classica},
  volume    = {30},
  journal   = {Syllecta Classica},
  publisher = {University of Iowa, Department of Classics},
  address   = {Iowa},
  issn      = {2160-5157},
  doi       = {10.1353/syl.2020.0003},
  pages     = {73 -- 108},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {A survey of the portrayal of the Germani in Latin textbooks from 1989 to 2009, tracing the resurgence of interest in the Germani in the Federal Republic of Germany after German reunification and leading up to bimillennial commemoration of the battle in the Teutoburg Forest. The central sources are textbooks for the teaching of Latin, while context is provided by academic scholarship and representations of the Germani in other cultural contexts, including film and theatre, museums and tourist attractions. The study traces a process of demythologisation and the rise of a myth of mythlessness in the handling of ancient Germanic history. Germany's role in the European Union is considered as a developing influence on the portrayal of ancient Germania, including Germania Romana, the Roman provinces of Germania, and Germania libera, the lands outside the empire.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{McNamara2021,
  author    = {McNamara, James},
  title     = {Pliny, Tacitus and the Monuments of Pallas},
  series = {The classical quarterly},
  volume    = {71},
  journal   = {The classical quarterly},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press},
  address   = {Cambridge},
  issn      = {0009-8388},
  doi       = {10.1017/S0009838821000203},
  pages     = {308 -- 329},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {This article is a discussion of Plin. Ep. 7.29 and Ep. 8.6, in which he presents his reaction to seeing the grave monument of Marcus Antonius Pallas, the freedman and minister of the Emperor Claudius, beside the Via Tiburtina. The monument records a senatorial vote of thanks to Pallas, and Pliny expresses intense indignation at the Senate's subservience and at the power and influence wielded by a freedman. This article compares Pliny's letters with Tacitus' account of the senatorial vote of thanks to Pallas at Ann. 12.52-3 and explores the differences between the ways in which the two authors encourage readers to relate to past events. It is noted that the Pallas letters are unusual amongst Pliny's let- ters for their treatment of material unconnected with the life and career of Pliny and his friends, and argued that in Ep. 7.29 Pliny uses language and attitudes drawn from satire to evoke the past. Ep. 8.6 is read as an idiosyncratic piece of historical enquiry, consider- ing Pliny's use of citation and his anonymization of historical individuals. Both letters are considered in the context of the surrounding letters, and a hypothesis is offered regarding the identity of their addressee Montanus, considering evidence from Tacitus' Histories and Annals. Discussion of Tac. Ann. 12.52-3 focusses on the use of irony. Pliny's evocation of enargeia ('vividness') is compared with that of Tacitus. The article concludes with comparison of the historical accounts offered by Pliny and Tacitus through reflection on Juvenal, Satire 1.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{McNamara2020,
  author    = {McNamara, James},
  title     = {The Portrayal of Germani in German Latin Textbooks, 1989-2009},
  series = {Syllecta Classica},
  volume    = {30},
  journal   = {Syllecta Classica},
  issn      = {2160-5157},
  doi       = {10.1353/syl.2020.0003},
  pages     = {73 -- 108},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {A survey of the portrayal of the Germani in Latin textbooks from 1989 to 2009, tracing the resurgence of interest in the Germani in the Federal Republic of Germany after German reunification and leading up to bimillennial commemoration of the battle in the Teutoburg Forest. The central sources are textbooks for the teaching of Latin, while context is provided by academic scholarship and representations of the Germani in other cultural contexts, including film and theatre, museums and tourist attractions. The study traces a process of demythologisation and the rise of a myth of mythlessness in the handling of ancient Germanic history. Germany's role in the European Union is considered as a developing influence on the portrayal of ancient Germania, including Germania Romana, the Roman provinces of Germania, and Germania libera, the lands outside the empire.},
  language  = {en}
}
@masterthesis{Steger2015,
  type      = {Bachelor Thesis},
  author    = {Steger, Sascha},
  title     = {Kaiser Nero und die Macht der Ger{\"u}chte},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-81270},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {40},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Nero nuntiis magis et rumoribus quam armis depulsus. Der r{\"o}mische Geschichtsschreiber Tacitus konstatierte in den Historien, Kaiser Nero sei „mehr durch Botschaften und Ger{\"u}chte gest{\"u}rzt worden als durch Waffengewalt" (hist. 1,89,2). Laut der antiken Quellen redete die plebs urbana tats{\"a}chlich mit unb{\"a}ndigem Interesse {\"u}ber den princeps und diskutierte Ger{\"u}chte, die Neros Verfehlungen als Schutzherr Roms thematisierten oder ihn gar der Brandstiftung bezichtigten - das Bild des verr{\"u}ckten Kaisers, der Leier spielend seine Freude {\"u}ber das brennende Rom ausdr{\"u}ckt, dient weithin als anschauliches Beispiel eines Tyrannen. Diese Arbeit {\"u}berpr{\"u}ft die genannte taciteische These auf Schl{\"u}ssigkeit. Dazu muss die komplexe Konstellation der Herrschaft Neros sowie seines Untergangs, in Hinblick auf die Wirkungsweise der Ger{\"u}chte, dargelegt und analysiert werden. Es werden anfangs elementare Fragen der geschichtswissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Nero und zum fr{\"u}hen Prinzipat behandelt: {\"U}ber welches Ansehen und Handlungspotential verf{\"u}gte die plebs urbana? Wodurch wurde die Herrschaft des Kaisers legitimiert und auf welche Gruppen zielte Neros Herrschaftspropaganda ab? Im Anschluss erl{\"a}utert und analysiert der Verfasser die Funktionen des Ger{\"u}chts als Mittel der politischen Meinungsbildung f{\"u}r die Aristokratie und die hauptst{\"a}dtische plebs. Der Einfluss der {\"u}blen Nachrede auf die Herrschaft Neros wird durch die Schilderung dreier kennzeichnender Ger{\"u}chtekomplexe analysiert und f{\"u}hrt schließlich zu der Frage, ob tats{\"a}chlich die fama zum Sturz des Kaisers f{\"u}hrte oder vielmehr die vernachl{\"a}ssigte Heeresklientel an den Reichsgrenzen die entscheidenden Entwicklungen vorantrieb.},
  language  = {de}
}