TY - JOUR A1 - McNamara, James ED - Geue, Tom ED - Giusti, Elena T1 - Lost in Germania BT - the absence of history in Tacitus' ethnography JF - Unspoken Rome: Absences in Latin Texts N2 - 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. KW - Tacitus KW - Germania KW - Ethnography KW - Ethnographie KW - Historiography KW - Geschichtsschreibung KW - Absence KW - Latin literature KW - Lateinische Literatur Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/unspoken-rome/lost-in-germania/14769D9F862EC2E2868152BFF0B3D78D SN - 978-11-0884-304-1 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108913843.012 SP - 201 EP - 218 PB - Cambridge University Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McNamara, James T1 - The Portrayal of Germani in German Latin Textbooks, 1989-2009 JF - Syllecta Classica N2 - 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. KW - Classical reception KW - Germania KW - Tacitus KW - Caesar KW - Textbooks Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1353/syl.2020.0003 SN - 2160-5157 SN - 1040-3612 VL - 30 SP - 73 EP - 108 PB - University of Iowa, Department of Classics CY - Iowa ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McNamara, James T1 - Pliny, Tacitus and the Monuments of Pallas JF - The classical quarterly N2 - 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. KW - Tacitus KW - Pliny the Younger KW - Marcus Antonius Pallas KW - Epistolography KW - Historiography KW - Claudius KW - Juvenal KW - satire KW - indignatio Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/pliny-tacitus-and-the-monuments-of-pallas/1E36F8EADA74731ADC1402627AE90409 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838821000203 SN - 0009-8388 SN - 1471-6844 VL - 71 IS - 1 SP - 308 EP - 329 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McNamara, James T1 - The Portrayal of Germani in German Latin Textbooks, 1989-2009 JF - Syllecta Classica N2 - 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. KW - Classical reception KW - Germania KW - Tacitus KW - Caesar KW - Textbooks KW - Education Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1353/syl.2020.0003 SN - 2160-5157 SN - 1040-3612 VL - 30 SP - 73 EP - 108 ER -