Tacitus: Opera Maiora
(2024)
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All Outputs (12)
Tacitus and the Speech of Claudius on the Tabula Lugdunensis (2023)
Journal Article
In A.D. 48 Claudius delivered a speech in support of a petition from Roman citizen elites of Gallia Comata for admission to the senate. Part of that speech survives on the Tabula Lugdunensisand in a version by Tacitus in his account of the Gauls’ pet... Read More about Tacitus and the Speech of Claudius on the Tabula Lugdunensis.
A Probable Allusion to Edward Gibbon in a Letter of Hugh Trevor-Roper (2022)
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In March 1959 Hugh Trevor-Roper, Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford, took his wife Xandra, the daughter of Field Marshal Haig, to convalesce in Beaulieu-sur-Mer. From there he wrote a long letter to the Yale historian Wall... Read More about A Probable Allusion to Edward Gibbon in a Letter of Hugh Trevor-Roper.
The Return of the King? Tacitus on the Principate of Augustus (2022)
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Tacitus opens the Annals with a succinct sketch of the constitutional history of Rome from the kings to Augustus (1.1.1). The common interpretation holds that Tacitus adopts a cyclical view of this history which identifies the supremacy of Augustus w... Read More about The Return of the King? Tacitus on the Principate of Augustus.
The asyndeton bimembre at Tacitus Annals 5.7.1 (2022)
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The Tabula Lugdunensis: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary (2020)
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Unearthed in 1528 at Lyon, the Tabula Lugdunensis preserves the longest speech of a Roman emperor to survive in epigraphic form. In AD 48 Claudius addressed the senate to press a petition by elites of north-western Gaul to hold senatorial rank and of... Read More about The Tabula Lugdunensis: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary.
The tradition about the mons Caelius (2018)
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This essay offers three arguments concerning the ancient tradition about the mons Caelius. (1) Tacitus’ digression on the name of the mons Caelius at Annals 4.65 provides a useful framework for interpreting the complexity of the tradition: Caeles Vib... Read More about The tradition about the mons Caelius.
Frontinus and Domitian: the politics of the Strategemata (2015)
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Acidalius on Tacitus (2015)
Book Chapter
The classicism of Hugh Trevor-Roper (2015)
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Hugh Trevor-Roper was educated as a classicist until he transferred to history, in which he made his reputation, after two years at Oxford. His schooling engendered in him a classicism that was characterised by a love of classical literature and styl... Read More about The classicism of Hugh Trevor-Roper.
The fragments of the Roman historians: conventions and opportunities (2014)
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