Edited by:
Maria Chiara Scappaticcio
- De Gruyter
|- 2020
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the ERC funded project PLATINUM (ERC-StG 2014 n°636983) in response to Tiziano Dorandi’s recollections of a series of unpublished notes on Latin texts on papyrus.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 PLATINUM followed the unpublished intuition by Robert Marichal as one path of investigation in its own research and work.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.
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Introduction(s)
When tiny scraps cause new chapters of Latin literature to be written
Maria Chiara Scappaticcio
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- 3–8
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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
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- 31–50
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This article presents in concise but comprehensive fashion the work that led to the identification of the text contained in P.Herc. 1067 as ... Show MoreOPEN ACCESSUn libro dell’ Ab initio bellorum civilium di Seneca il vecchio e il fondo latino della biblioteca della Villa dei Papiri a Ercolano
Tiziano Dorandi
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- 51–74
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The recent discovery of remains of a book of the Ab initio bellorum civilium of Seneca the Elder in the PHerc. 1067 is important not only b ... Show MoreOPEN ACCESSHistoriae ab initio bellorum civilium: Exegetical Surveys on the Direct Trans-mission of Seneca the Elder’s Historiographical Work
Maria Chiara Scappaticcio
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- 75–86
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Working on P.Herc. 1067 has revealed it to be the only direct witness to the otherwise unknown Seneca the Elder’s Historiae ab initio bell ... Show MoreOPEN ACCESSUnde primum veritas retro abiit. Riflessioni sull’inizio delle Historiae di Seneca Padre
Giancarlo Mazzoli
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- 87–100
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The coincidence in the tria nomina of Seneca the Elder and the Young, as well as inducing, until the Renaissance, a centuries-old misunde ... Show MoreOPEN ACCESSSemina belli. Seneca il Vecchio e le cause delle guerre civili
Emanuele Berti
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- 101–122
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The exposition of the causes of the civil wars was an historiographical topos, which had certainly to be treated in the proemial section of Se ... Show MoreOPEN ACCESSLooking for Seneca’s Historiae in Suetonius’ Life of Tiberius
Cynthia Damon
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- 123–142
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The aim of this paper is to identify potentially Senecan material in Suetonius’ Life of Tiberius, the site of one of the two generally ac ... Show MoreOPEN ACCESSThe Lost Histories of the Elder Seneca(1972)
Lewis A. Sussman
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- 143–194
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Written in the early 70s but never published until now, this paper offers an overview of what we can reconstruct of Seneca the Elder’s Hist ... Show MoreOPEN ACCESSBibliographical updates to Sussman’s “The lost Histories of the Elder Seneca” (1972– 2019)
Biagio Santorelli
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- 195–196
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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
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- 199–234
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This paper examines what may be said about the style of Latin historians who were contemporary with the elder Seneca. Most space is devoted t ... Show MoreOPEN ACCESSLa place de Sénèque le Père parmi les sources possibles des Annales 1–6
Olivier Devillers
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- 235–258
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Recently, the studies on the sources of Tacitus have frequently ad- dressed the question in the terms of his originality in the rewriting of ... Show MoreOPEN ACCESSSeneca padre, Tacito e Germanico
Arturo De Vivo
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- 259–276
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In this paper, Drusus and, in particular, Germanicus are the key-figures to whom attention is offered through an in-depth examination of the ... Show MoreOPEN ACCESSSeneca Padre e il ‘canone dei tiranni’ romani: una questione di famiglia?
Antonio Pistellato
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- 277–292
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This paper elaborates on the early development of a ‘canon’ of Roman tyrants in imperial Rome. Testimonies from Flavius Josephus, Quintilian ... Show MoreOPEN ACCESSSeneca vs Seneca: generazioni e stili a confronto tra oratoria, filosofia e storiografia
Chiara Torre
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- 293–314
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This paper aims to offer a fresh reading about Seneca’s epistle 100 to Lucilius about the stylistic portrait of Papirius Fabianus. As w ... Show MoreOPEN ACCESSDi aetas in aetas: considerazioni sulla storiografia di Seneca Padre e Floro
Chiara Renda
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- 315–328
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The partition of the history of Rome by aetates is a feature shared by both the historical work of Seneca the Elder and Florus’ historiograph ... Show MoreOPEN ACCESSAppian, Cassius Dio and Seneca the Elder
John W. Rich
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- 329–354
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This paper examines the sources and methods of Appian and Cassius Dio and the likelihood that they used the Histories of Seneca the Elder as a ... Show MoreOPEN ACCESS
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