TY - JOUR A1 - McNamara, James T1 - A new edition of tacitus Germania BT - Rezension zu: Germania / Tacito ; saggio introduttivo, nuova traduzzione e note a cura di Sergio Audano. - Santarcangelo di Romagna: Rusconi Libri, 2020. - CXCVIII, 180 S. - ISBN: 978-88-18-03633-6 JF - The classical review / Classical Association Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-88-18-03633-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X21002110 SN - 0009-840X SN - 1464-3561 VL - 71 IS - 2 SP - 418 EP - 420 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - CHAP A1 - McNamara, James T1 - I confini del mondo nell'Agricola di Tacito T2 - Centro e periferia nella letteratura latina di Roma imperiale N2 - 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. KW - Tacitus KW - Spatial rhetoric KW - Gnaeus Julius Agricola Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-88-3283-246-4 SP - 35 EP - 52 PB - Forum editrice universitaria udinese CY - Udine ER - 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 - 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 - Tacitus and cinema BT - Rezension zu: Waddell, Philip: Tacitus and cinema - Tacitean Visual Narrative. - London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. - Pp xii+240, ills. - ISBN 978-1-350-09700-1 JF - The classical review / Classical Association Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-1-350-09700-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X21001888 SN - 0009-840X SN - 1464-3561 VL - 71 IS - 2 SP - 420 EP - 422 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER -