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Lädt ... Seneca the Elder and his Rediscovered Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium: New Perspectives on Early-Imperial Roman Historiographyvon Maria Chiara Scappaticcio (Herausgeber)
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To sum up, the volume is valuable not only because it celebrates a remarkable discovery, namely the identification of P.Herc. 1067 as part of Seneca the Elder’s Historiae, but also because it offers a broader view on early-imperial Roman historiography. Although some of the points in dispute seem to me incapable of definitive resolution—such as the debate on the actual beginning of the Histories – the conflicting views arising from divergent angles stimulate the discussion around a text – or rather fragments of the text – which would deserve further investigation. 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.
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the ERC funded project PLATINUM (ERC-StG 2014 n°636983) in response to Tiziano Dorandi's recollections of a series of unpublished notes on Latin texts on papyrus.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 PLATINUM followed the unpublished intuition by Robert Marichal as one path of investigation in its own research and work.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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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