Seneca the Elder and His Rediscovered ›Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium‹: New Perspectives on Early-Imperial Roman Historiography

book: Seneca the Elder and His Rediscovered ›Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium‹

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2020

Seneca the Elder and His Rediscovered ›Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium‹

New Perspectives on Early-Imperial Roman Historiography

Edited by: Maria Chiara Scappaticcio

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110688665

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Open Access

The refreshed insights into early-imperial Roman historiography this book offers are linked to a recent discovery.

In the spring of 2014, the binders of the archive of Robert Marichal were dusted off by the ERC funded project PLATINUM (ERC-StG 2014 n°636983) in response to Tiziano Dorandi’s recollections of a series of unpublished notes on Latin texts on papyrus. Among these was an in-progress edition of the Latin rolls from Herculaneum, together with Marichal’s intuition that one of them had to be ascribed to a certain ‘Annaeus Seneca’. PLATINUM followed the unpublished intuition by Robert Marichal as one path of investigation in its own research and work. Working on the Latin P.Herc. 1067 led to confirm Marichal’s intuitions and to go beyond it: P.Herc. 1067 is the only extant direct witness to Seneca the Elder’s Historiae. Bringing a new and important chapter of Latin literature arise out of a charred papyrus is significant.

The present volume is made up of two complementary sections, each of which contains seven contributions. They are in close dialogue with each other, as looking at the same literary matter from several points of view yields undeniable advantages and represents an innovative and fruitful step in Latin literary criticism. These two sections express the two different but interlinked axes along which the contributions were developed. On one side, the focus is on the starting point of the debate, namely the discovery of the papyrus roll transmitting the Historiae of Seneca the Elder and how such a discovery can be integrated with prior knowledge about this historiographical work. On the other side, there is a broader view on early-imperial Roman historiography, to which the new perspectives opened by the rediscovery of Seneca the Elder’s Historiae greatly contribute.

Author / Editor information

Maria Chiara Scappaticcio, University of Naples 'Federico II', Italy, P.I. of the ERC-StG project PLATINUM (no. 636983).

Reviews

"Undoubtedly, this volume will remain a milestone in the scholarship on Seneca the Elder’s Historiae and it is recommended to anyone with an interest in early-imperial Roman historiography more generally." Martina Russo in: BMCR 2021.01.23

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	IX
Introduction(s)
When tiny scraps cause new chapters of Latin literature to be written Maria Chiara Scappaticcio Open Access Download PDF	3
Roman historical writing in the age of the Elder Seneca Timothy J. Cornell Open Access Download PDF	9
Part I: Seneca the Elder’s Historiae ab initio bello-rum civilium: Integrating New Discoveries with Old Knowledge
A ‘historic(al)’ find from the library of Herculaneum: Seneca the Elder and the Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium in P.Herc. 1067 Valeria Piano Open Access Download PDF	31
Un libro dell’ Ab initio bellorum civilium di Seneca il vecchio e il fondo latino della biblioteca della Villa dei Papiri a Ercolano Tiziano Dorandi Open Access Download PDF	51
Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium: Exegetical Surveys on the Direct Trans-mission of Seneca the Elder’s Historiographical Work Maria Chiara Scappaticcio Open Access Download PDF	75
Unde primum veritas retro abiit. Riflessioni sull’inizio delle Historiae di Seneca Padre Giancarlo Mazzoli Open Access Download PDF	87
Semina belli. Seneca il Vecchio e le cause delle guerre civili Emanuele Berti Open Access Download PDF	101
Looking for Seneca’s Historiae in Suetonius’ Life of Tiberius Cynthia Damon Open Access Download PDF	123
The Lost Histories of the Elder Seneca(1972) Lewis A. Sussman Open Access Download PDF	143
Bibliographical updates to Sussman’s “The lost Histories of the Elder Seneca” (1972– 2019) Biagio Santorelli Open Access Download PDF	195
Part II: Seneca’s Historiae in Context: New Perspectives on Early-Imperial Roman Historiography
Point and periodicity: the style of Velleius Paterculus and other Latin historians writing in the early Principate Stephen P. Oakley Open Access Download PDF	199
La place de Sénèque le Père parmi les sources possibles des Annales 1–6 Olivier Devillers Open Access Download PDF	235
Seneca padre, Tacito e Germanico Arturo De Vivo Open Access Download PDF	259
Seneca Padre e il ‘canone dei tiranni’ romani: una questione di famiglia? Antonio Pistellato Open Access Download PDF	277
Seneca vs Seneca: generazioni e stili a confronto tra oratoria, filosofia e storiografia Chiara Torre Open Access Download PDF	293
Di aetas in aetas: considerazioni sulla storiografia di Seneca Padre e Floro Chiara Renda Open Access Download PDF	315
Appian, Cassius Dio and Seneca the Elder John W. Rich Open Access Download PDF	329
Appendix – Testimonia and Fragmenta from Seneca the Elder’s Historiae Open Access Download PDF	355
Bibliographical References Open Access Download PDF	369
List of figures Open Access Download PDF	395
List of Tables Open Access Download PDF	397
Index of Passages Open Access Download PDF	399
Index of Papyri Open Access Download PDF	421
Index of Manuscripts Open Access Download PDF	423
Index of Inscriptions Open Access Download PDF	425

(Deutsch)

Languages: English, Italian, French
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Classicists, Philologists, Papyrologists, Historians
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 425
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 7
- Tables: 7
Keywords: Seneca the Elder; historiography; philology; Latin

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Published: June 8, 2020
ISBN: 9783110688665

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Published: June 8, 2020
ISBN: 9783110685855