Zur biographischen Modellierung des historiographischen Ichs bei Sallust, Livius und Tacitus
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Therese Fuhrer
Abstract
On the biographical modelling of the historiographical self in Sallust, Livy and Tacitus. This article will focus on first-person statements in the historiographical works of Sallust, Livy and Tacitus. Here information about the ‘bios’ of the first-person narrator is of particular interest. The central question concerns the selection, the omission and the fictionalisation of this information. I propose to show how the (auto‐)biographical material is used in order to demonstrate the fact that the authorfigures possess the requisite competence to carry out the literary project and to narrate the subject or topic concerned. This means that the textual staging of the first person should be understood as a social interaction whose purpose is to give the intended audience a certain impression of the author, a process that can be subsumedunder the term impression management.The first-person statements represent figures that stand in front of the real authors Sallust, Livy and Tacitus. By providing specific information about their personal experiences, the personae of these authors are modelled in such a way as to persuade readers of the validity of the authors’ reading of the events and to persuade them of the plausibility of the interpretations that they offer.
Abstract
On the biographical modelling of the historiographical self in Sallust, Livy and Tacitus. This article will focus on first-person statements in the historiographical works of Sallust, Livy and Tacitus. Here information about the ‘bios’ of the first-person narrator is of particular interest. The central question concerns the selection, the omission and the fictionalisation of this information. I propose to show how the (auto‐)biographical material is used in order to demonstrate the fact that the authorfigures possess the requisite competence to carry out the literary project and to narrate the subject or topic concerned. This means that the textual staging of the first person should be understood as a social interaction whose purpose is to give the intended audience a certain impression of the author, a process that can be subsumedunder the term impression management.The first-person statements represent figures that stand in front of the real authors Sallust, Livy and Tacitus. By providing specific information about their personal experiences, the personae of these authors are modelled in such a way as to persuade readers of the validity of the authors’ reading of the events and to persuade them of the plausibility of the interpretations that they offer.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Vorwort VII
- Inhalt IX
- Autofiktion(en) in der antiken Literatur 1
- Autofiktionen und Maskenspiele bei Kallimachos: eine Poetik der Irritation? 15
- Die römische Liebeselegie als autofiktionale Gattung? Überlegungen zu Chancen und Grenzen am Beispiel von Ovids Amores 31
- Ovidfiktionen: Zwischen Rom und Rumänien 53
- Apologien erotischer Dichtung und Autofiktion: Drei Fallstudien 73
- Zum Autofiktionsbegriff aus klassisch-philologischer Perspektive anhand von Ovids poetischer Autobiographie (trist. 4,10) – oder Autofiktion? 97
- Zur biographischen Modellierung des historiographischen Ichs bei Sallust, Livius und Tacitus 131
- Fortuna non mutat genus (Hor. epod. 4,6) 155
- Emicem liber: Text und (horazisches) Ich in Prudentius’ Praefatio 177
- In the Temple of Daphnean Apollo: “Philostratus” in His Works 193
- „Eines der ärgerlichsten Musterstücke verlogener Rhetorik“: Hieronymus’ Traum und die Begründung seiner Autorschaft 213
- Zu den Autorinnen und Autoren 241
- Index 243
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Vorwort VII
- Inhalt IX
- Autofiktion(en) in der antiken Literatur 1
- Autofiktionen und Maskenspiele bei Kallimachos: eine Poetik der Irritation? 15
- Die römische Liebeselegie als autofiktionale Gattung? Überlegungen zu Chancen und Grenzen am Beispiel von Ovids Amores 31
- Ovidfiktionen: Zwischen Rom und Rumänien 53
- Apologien erotischer Dichtung und Autofiktion: Drei Fallstudien 73
- Zum Autofiktionsbegriff aus klassisch-philologischer Perspektive anhand von Ovids poetischer Autobiographie (trist. 4,10) – oder Autofiktion? 97
- Zur biographischen Modellierung des historiographischen Ichs bei Sallust, Livius und Tacitus 131
- Fortuna non mutat genus (Hor. epod. 4,6) 155
- Emicem liber: Text und (horazisches) Ich in Prudentius’ Praefatio 177
- In the Temple of Daphnean Apollo: “Philostratus” in His Works 193
- „Eines der ärgerlichsten Musterstücke verlogener Rhetorik“: Hieronymus’ Traum und die Begründung seiner Autorschaft 213
- Zu den Autorinnen und Autoren 241
- Index 243
