Recapturing the Capitol: Yet More Livian Refoundations
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Denis Feeney
Denis Feeney retired in 2021 from Princeton University, where he had been Giger Professor of Latin since 2000. He took his BA and MA at Auckland University and went to Oxford University to study under Robin Nisbet for his DPhil (1982). He is the author of four books and numerous articles, collected in two volumes as Explorations in Latin Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2021). With Stephen Hinds he edited the Cambridge series Roman Literature and its Contexts.
Abstract
In Livy’s History, the Roman Capitol is twice captured under Sabine leadership, in book 1 and in book 3. These two crises anticipate the Gallic sack at the end of the first pentad, when the Gauls capture the whole city but fail to take the Capitol. This chapter explores the implications of the symmetry Livy creates across the pentad in these three closely related episodes, arguing that the episodes need to be considered together in order for us fully to grasp Livy’s major themes of Roman identity, citizenship, and alliance.
Abstract
In Livy’s History, the Roman Capitol is twice captured under Sabine leadership, in book 1 and in book 3. These two crises anticipate the Gallic sack at the end of the first pentad, when the Gauls capture the whole city but fail to take the Capitol. This chapter explores the implications of the symmetry Livy creates across the pentad in these three closely related episodes, arguing that the episodes need to be considered together in order for us fully to grasp Livy’s major themes of Roman identity, citizenship, and alliance.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Dedication V
- Preface V
- Acknowledgements
- Contents XV
- Christina S. Kraus: Publications to Date XVII
- Polybius and Livy’s Sentence Structure 1
- Narrative Inconsistencies and Ethical Constructions in Livy Book 31 29
- “I Want to Be Great Too – but How?” Alexander, Augustus, and Livy 43
- There and Back Again: Structure and Crossing in Livy’s Third Decade 61
- Livy on the Tiber Island: Writing Rome a Solo 77
- Recapturing the Capitol: Yet More Livian Refoundations 93
- Caesar’s Shrinking Lexicon 109
- On Endings and Beginnings in Caesar’s Bellum civile 125
- Cicero’s Caesarian Histories 143
- Tacfarinine Disorder: Sallustian and Livian Color at Tacitus, Annals 3.20–1 157
- Shadows of History: Sallustian Perspectives on Book 2 of Augustine’s Confessions 177
- Camilla and the Guys 197
- How Is Maecenas Like a Syllogism? Seneca on Style in the Moral Epistles 215
- The divergent epistolary cultures of greece and rome 400 BCE–400 CE 231
- The clades variana: literary commemoration of a roman military disaster 253
- Tacitus for courtiers 265
- Sex and empire: caesar and henry higgins 277
- The silence of the frogs: an experiment with paratragedy 293
- List of Contributors 293
- General Index
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Dedication V
- Preface V
- Acknowledgements
- Contents XV
- Christina S. Kraus: Publications to Date XVII
- Polybius and Livy’s Sentence Structure 1
- Narrative Inconsistencies and Ethical Constructions in Livy Book 31 29
- “I Want to Be Great Too – but How?” Alexander, Augustus, and Livy 43
- There and Back Again: Structure and Crossing in Livy’s Third Decade 61
- Livy on the Tiber Island: Writing Rome a Solo 77
- Recapturing the Capitol: Yet More Livian Refoundations 93
- Caesar’s Shrinking Lexicon 109
- On Endings and Beginnings in Caesar’s Bellum civile 125
- Cicero’s Caesarian Histories 143
- Tacfarinine Disorder: Sallustian and Livian Color at Tacitus, Annals 3.20–1 157
- Shadows of History: Sallustian Perspectives on Book 2 of Augustine’s Confessions 177
- Camilla and the Guys 197
- How Is Maecenas Like a Syllogism? Seneca on Style in the Moral Epistles 215
- The divergent epistolary cultures of greece and rome 400 BCE–400 CE 231
- The clades variana: literary commemoration of a roman military disaster 253
- Tacitus for courtiers 265
- Sex and empire: caesar and henry higgins 277
- The silence of the frogs: an experiment with paratragedy 293
- List of Contributors 293
- General Index
