Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium: Exegetical Surveys on the Direct Trans-mission of Seneca the Elder’s Historiographical Work

Maria Chiara Scappaticcio

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2020

Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium: Exegetical Surveys on the Direct Trans-mission of Seneca the Elder’s Historiographical Work

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

Maria Chiara Scappaticcio

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110688665-005

Abstract

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 bellorum civilium. This paper highlights the importance of philological work on unpublished Latin literary papyri in order to open new perspectives on the study of Latin literature and to write new chapters of it. An overview of the reconstructable contents is offered through a work of Quellenforschung of Imperial historiography and biography. Reading the text of P.Herc. 1067 together with the Tiberian chapters from the Annales of Tacitus, the historical work of Cassius Dio and the Lives of Suetonius is instructive in order to recover possible traits of the plot of a section of the historiographical work by Seneca the Elder.

Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium: Exegetical Surveys on the Direct Trans-mission of Seneca the Elder’s Historiographical Work

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