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Tacitus, Annals, 4.32
Pleraque eorum quae rettuli quaeque referam parva forsitan et levia memoratu videri non nescius sum: sed nemo annalis nostros cum scriptura eorum contenderit qui veteres populi Romani res composuere. ingentia illi bella, expugnationes urbium, fusos captosque reges, aut si quando ad interna praeverterent, discordias consulum adversum tribunos, agrarias frumentariasque leges, plebis et optimatium certamina libero egressu memorabant: nobis in arto et inglorius labor; immota quippe aut modice lacessita pax, maestae urbis res et princeps proferendi imperi incuriosus erat. non tamen sine usu fuerit introspicere illa primo aspectu levia ex quis magnarum saepe rerum motus oriuntur.  I am not unaware that very many of the events I have described, and shall describe, may perhaps seem little things, trifles too slight for record; but no parallel can be drawn between these chronicles of mine and the work of the men who composed the ancient history of the Roman people. Gigantic wars, cities stormed, routed and captive kings, or, when they turned by choice to domestic affairs, the feuds of consul and tribune, land-laws and corn-laws, the duel of nobles and commons — such were the themes on which they dwelt, or digressed, at will. Mine is an inglorious labour in a narrow field: for this was an age of peace unbroken or half-heartedly challenged, of tragedy in the capital, of a prince careless to extend the empire. Yet it may be not unprofitable to look beneath the surface of those incidents, trivial at the first inspection, which so often set in motion the great events of history. <
Pleraque eorum quae rettuli quaeque referam parva forsitan et levia memoratu videri non nescius sum: sed nemo annalis nostros cum scriptura eorum contenderit qui veteres populi Romani res composuere. ingentia illi bella, expugnationes urbium, fusos captosque reges, aut si quando ad interna praeverterent, discordias consulum adversum tribunos, agrarias frumentariasque leges, plebis et optimatium certamina libero egressu memorabant: nobis in arto et inglorius labor; immota quippe aut modice lacessita pax, maestae urbis res et princeps proferendi imperi incuriosus erat. non tamen sine usu fuerit introspicere illa primo aspectu levia ex quis magnarum saepe rerum motus oriuntur.  I am not unaware that very many of the events I have described, and shall describe, may perhaps seem little things, trifles too slight for record; but no parallel can be drawn between these chronicles of mine and the work of the men who composed the ancient history of the Roman people. Gigantic wars, cities stormed, routed and captive kings, or, when they turned by choice to domestic affairs, the feuds of consul and tribune, land-laws and corn-laws, the duel of nobles and commons — such were the themes on which they dwelt, or digressed, at will. Mine is an inglorious labour in a narrow field: for this was an age of peace unbroken or half-heartedly challenged, of tragedy in the capital, of a prince careless to extend the empire. Yet it may be not unprofitable to look beneath the surface of those incidents, trivial at the first inspection, which so often set in motion the great events of history.

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1. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 1.10.3, 1.21.1, 1.22.4, 2.41.4 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 1.10.3. We have therefore no right to be skeptical, nor to content ourselves with an inspection of a town to the exclusion of a consideration of its power; but we may safely conclude that the armament in question surpassed all before it, as it fell short of modern efforts; if we can here also accept the testimony of Homer's poems, in which, without allowing for the exaggeration which a poet would feel himself licensed to employ, we can see that it was far from equalling ours. 1.21.1. On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they will not be disturbed either by the lays of a poet displaying the exaggeration of his craft, or by the compositions of the chroniclers that are attractive at truth's expense; the subjects they treat of being out of the reach of evidence, and time having robbed most of them of historical value by enthroning them in the region of legend. Turning from these, we can rest satisfied with having proceeded upon the clearest data, and having arrived at conclusions as exact as can be expected in matters of such antiquity. 1.22.4. The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time. 2.41.4. Rather, the admiration of the present and succeeding ages will be ours, since we have not left our power without witness, but have shown it by mighty proofs; and far from needing a Homer for our panegyrist, or other of his craft whose verses might charm for the moment only for the impression which they gave to melt at the touch of fact, we have forced every sea and land to be the highway of our daring, and everywhere, whether for evil or for good, have left imperishable monuments behind us.
2. Josephus Flavius, Life, 362-367, 361 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
3. Plutarch, Alexander The Great, 1.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 1.2. For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds there is not always a manifestation of virtue or vice, nay, a slight thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of character than battles where thousands fall, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities.
4. Plutarch, Artaxerxes, 8.1-8.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
5. Plutarch, Nicias, 1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
6. Seneca The Younger, De Clementia, 1.1.6 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
7. Suetonius, Nero, 10.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
8. Tacitus, Annals, 1.1.2-1.1.3, 1.4.2, 3.27, 4.32.1, 4.33-4.35, 11.11.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 4.32.1.  I am not unaware that very many of the events I have described, and shall describe, may perhaps seem little things, trifles too slight for record; but no parallel can be drawn between these chronicles of mine and the work of the men who composed the ancient history of the Roman people. Gigantic wars, cities stormed, routed and captive kings, or, when they turned by choice to domestic affairs, the feuds of consul and tribune, land-laws and corn-laws, the duel of nobles and commons — such were the themes on which they dwelt, or digressed, at will. Mine is an inglorious labour in a narrow field: for this was an age of peace unbroken or half-heartedly challenged, of tragedy in the capital, of a prince careless to extend the empire. Yet it may be not unprofitable to look beneath the surface of those incidents, trivial at the first inspection, which so often set in motion the great events of history. 4.33.  For every nation or city is governed by the people, or by the nobility, or by individuals: a constitution selected and blended from these types is easier to commend than to create; or, if created, its tenure of life is brief. Accordingly, as in the period of alternate plebeian domice and patrician ascendancy it was imperative, in one case, to study the character of the masses and the methods of controlling them; while, in the other, those who had acquired the most exact knowledge of the temper of the senate and the aristocracy were accounted shrewd in their generation and wise; so to‑day, when the situation has been transformed and the Roman world is little else than a monarchy, the collection and the chronicling of these details may yet serve an end: for few men distinguish right and wrong, the expedient and the disastrous, by native intelligence; the majority are schooled by the experience of others. But while my themes have their utility, they offer the minimum of pleasure. Descriptions of countries, the vicissitudes of battles, commanders dying on the field of honour, such are the episodes that arrest and renew the interest of the reader: for myself, I present a series of savage mandates, of perpetual accusations, of traitorous friendships, of ruined innocents, of various causes and identical results — everywhere monotony of subject, and satiety. Again, the ancient author has few detractors, and it matters to none whether you praise the Carthaginian or the Roman arms with the livelier enthusiasm. But of many, who underwent either the legal penalty or a form of degradation in the principate of Tiberius, the descendants remain; and, assuming the actual families to be now extinct, you will still find those who, from a likeness of character, read the ill deeds of others as an innuendo against themselves. Even glory and virtue create their enemies — they arraign their opposites by too close a contrast. But I return to my subject. 4.34.  The consulate of Cornelius Cossus and Asinius Agrippa opened with the prosecution of Cremutius Cordus upon the novel and till then unheard-of charge of publishing a history, eulogizing Brutus, and styling Cassius the last of the Romans. The accusers were Satrius Secundus and Pinarius Natta, clients of Sejanus. That circumstance sealed the defendant's fate — that and the lowering brows of the Caesar, as he bent his attention to the defence; which Cremutius, resolved to take his leave of life, began as follows:— "Conscript Fathers, my words are brought to judgement — so guiltless am I of deeds! Nor are they even words against the sole persons embraced by the law of treason, the sovereign or the parent of the sovereign: I am said to have praised Brutus and Cassius, whose acts so many pens have recorded, whom not one has mentioned save with honour. Livy, with a fame for eloquence and candour second to none, lavished such eulogies on Pompey that Augustus styled him 'the Pompeian': yet it was without prejudice to their friendship. Scipio, Afranius, this very Cassius, this Brutus — not once does he describe them by the now fashionable titles of brigand and parricide, but time and again in such terms as he might apply to any distinguished patriots. The works of Asinius Pollio transmit their character in noble colours; Messalla Corvinus gloried to have served under Cassius: and Pollio and Corvinus lived and died in the fulness of wealth and honour! When Cicero's book praised Cato to the skies, what did it elicit from the dictator Caesar but a written oration as though at the bar of public opinion? The letters of Antony, the speeches of Brutus, contain invectives against Augustus, false undoubtedly yet bitter in the extreme; the poems — still read — of Bibaculus and Catullus are packed with scurrilities upon the Caesars: yet even the deified Julius, the divine Augustus himself, tolerated them and left them in peace; and I hesitate whether to ascribe their action to forbearance or to wisdom. For things contemned are soon things forgotten: anger is read as recognition. 4.35.  "I leave untouched the Greeks; with them not liberty only but licence itself went unchastised, or, if a man retaliated, he avenged words by words. But what above all else was absolutely free and immune from censure was the expression of an opinion on those whom death had removed beyond the range of rancour or of partiality. Are Brutus and Cassius under arms on the plains of Philippi, and I upon the platform, firing the nation to civil war? Or is it the case that, seventy years since their taking-off, as they are known by their effigies which the conqueror himself did not abolish, so a portion of their memory is enshrined likewise in history? — To every man posterity renders his wage of honour; nor will there lack, if my condemnation is at hand, those who shall remember, not Brutus and Cassius alone, but me also!" He then left the senate, and closed his life by self-starvation. The Fathers ordered his books to be burned by the aediles; but copies remained, hidden and afterwards published: a fact which moves us the more to deride the folly of those who believe that by an act of despotism in the present there can be extinguished also the memory of a succeeding age. On the contrary, genius chastised grows in authority; nor have alien kings or the imitators of their cruelty effected more than to crown themselves with ignominy and their victims with renown. 11.11.1.  Under the same consulate, eight hundred years from the foundation of Rome, sixty-four from their presentation by Augustus, came a performance of the Secular Games. The calculations employed by the two princes I omit, as they have been sufficiently explained in the books which I have devoted to the reign of Domitian. For he too exhibited Secular Games, and, as the holder of a quindecimviral priesthood and as praetor at the time, I followed them with more than usual care: a fact which I recall not in vanity, but because from of old this responsibility has rested with the Fifteen, and because it was to magistrates in especial that the task fell of discharging the duties connected with the religious ceremonies. During the presence of Claudius at the Circensian Games, when a cavalcade of boys from the great families opened the mimic battle of Troy, among them being the emperor's son, Britannicus, and Lucius Domitius, — soon to be adopted as heir to the throne and to the designation of Nero, — the livelier applause given by the populace to Domitius was accepted as prophetic. Also there was a common tale that serpents had watched over his infancy like warders: a fable retouched to resemble foreign miracles, since Nero — certainly not given to self-depreciation — used to say that only a single snake had been noticed in his bedroom.
9. Tacitus, Histories, 1.1-1.2, 1.1.1-1.1.2, 1.14-1.16, 1.18-1.19, 4.1, 4.34-4.35 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 4.1.  The death of Vitellius was rather the end of war than the beginning of peace. The victors ranged through the city in arms, pursuing their defeated foes with implacable hatred: the streets were full of carnage, the fora and temples reeked with blood; they slew right and left everyone whom chance put in their way. Presently, as their licence increased, they began to hunt out and drag into the light those who had concealed themselves; did they espy anyone who was tall and young, they cut him down, regardless whether he was soldier or civilian. Their ferocity, which found satisfaction in bloodshed while their hatred was fresh, turned then afterwards to greed. They let no place remain secret or closed, pretending that Vitellians were in hiding. This led to the forcing of private houses or, if resistance was made, became an excuse for murder. Nor was there any lack of starvelings among the mob or of the vilest slaves ready to betray their rich masters; others were pointed out by their friends. Everywhere were lamentations, cries of anguish, and the misfortunes that befall a captured city; so that the citizens actually longed for the licence of Otho's and Vitellius's soldiers, which earlier they had detested. The generals of the Flavian party, who had been quick to start the conflagration of civil war, were unequal to the task of controlling their victory, for in times of violence and civil strife the worst men have the greatest power; peace and quiet call for honest arts. 4.34.  The generals on both sides by equal faults deserved their reverses and failed to use their success: had Civilis put more troops in line, he could not have been surrounded by so few cohorts, and after breaking into the Roman camp, he would have destroyed it: Vocula failed to discover the enemy's approach, and therefore the moment that he sallied forth he was beaten; then, lacking confidence in his victory, he wasted some days before advancing against the foe, whereas if he had been prompt to press him hard and to follow up events, he might have raised the siege of the legions at one blow. Meanwhile Civilis had tested the temper of the besieged by pretending that the Roman cause was lost and that his side was victorious: he paraded the Roman ensigns and standards; he even exhibited captives. One of these had the courage to do an heroic deed, shouting out the truth, for which he was at once run through by the Germans: their act inspired the greater confidence in his statement; and at the same time the harried fields and the fires of the burning farm-houses announced the approach of a victorious army. When in sight of camp Vocula ordered the standards to be set up and a ditch and a palisade to be constructed about them, bidding his troops leave their baggage and kits there that they might fight unencumbered. This caused the troops to cry out against their commander and to demand instant battle; and in fact they had grown accustomed to threaten. Without taking time even to form a line, disordered and weary as they were, they engaged the enemy; for Civilis was ready for them, trusting in his opponents' mistakes no less than in the bravery of his own troops. Fortune varied on the Roman side, and the most mutinous proved cowards: some there were who, remembering their recent victory, kept their places, struck at the enemy, exhorted one another and their neighbours as well; reforming the line they held out hands to the besieged, begging them not to lose their opportunity. The latter, who saw everything from the walls, sallied forth from all the gates of their camp. Now at this moment Civilis's horse happened to slip and throw him; whereupon both sides accepted the report that he had been wounded or killed. It was marvellous how this belief terrified his men and inspired their foes with enthusiasm: yet Vocula, neglecting to pursue his flying foes, proceeded to strengthen the palisade and towers of his camp as if he were again threatened with siege, thus by his repeated failure to take advantage of victory giving good ground for the suspicion that he preferred war to peace. 4.35.  Nothing distressed our troops so much as the lack of provisions. The legions' baggage train was sent on to Novaesium with the men who were unfit for service to bring provisions from there overland; for the enemy controlled the river. The first convoy went without trouble, since Civilis was not yet strong enough to attack. But when he heard that the sutlers, who had been despatched again to Novaesium, and the cohorts escorting them were proceeding as if in time of peace, that there were few soldiers with the standards, that their arms were being carried in the carts while they all strolled along at will, he drew up his forces and attacked them, sending first some troops to occupy the bridges and narrow parts of the roads. They fought in a long line and indecisively until at last night put an end to the conflict. The cohorts reached Gelduba, where the camp remained in its old condition, being held by a force which had been left there. They had no doubt of the great danger that they would run if they returned with the sutlers heavily loaded and in a state of terror. Vocula reinforced his army with a thousand men picked from the Fifth and Fifteenth legions that had been besieged at Vetera, troops untamed and hostile toward their commanders. More men started than had been ordered to do so, and on the march they began to murmur openly that they would no longer endure hunger or the plots of their commanders; but those who were being left behind complained that they were being abandoned by the withdrawal of part of the legions. So a double mutiny began, some urging Vocula to return, others refusing to go back to camp.
10. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 53.19.1-53.19.5 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 53.19.1.  In this way the government was changed at that time for the better and in the interest of greater security; for it was no doubt quite impossible for the people to be saved under a republic. Nevertheless, the events occurring after this time can not be recorded in the same manner as those of previous times. 53.19.2.  Formerly, as we know, all matters were reported to the senate and to the people, even if they happened at a distance; hence all learned of them and many recorded them, and consequently the truth regarding them, no matter to what extent fear or favour, friendship or enmity, coloured the reports of certain writers, was always to a certain extent to be found in the works of the other writers who wrote of the same events and in the public records. 53.19.3.  But after this time most things that happened began to be kept secret and concealed, and even though some things are perchance made public, they are distrusted just because they can not be verified; for it is suspected that everything is said and done with reference to the wishes of the men in power at the time and of their associates. 53.19.4.  As a result, much that never occurs is noised abroad, and much that happens beyond a doubt is unknown, and in the case of nearly every event a version gains currency that is different from the way it really happened. Furthermore, the very magnitude of the empire and the multitude of things that occur render accuracy in regard to them most difficult. 53.19.5.  In Rome, for example, much is going on, and much in the subject territory, while, as regards our enemies, there is something happening all the time, in fact, every day, and concerning these things no one except the participants can easily have correct information, and most people do not even hear of them at all.
11. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 1.1, 3.20, 9.2.2 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 1.1. To Septicius. You have constantly urged me to collect and publish the more highly finished of the letters that I may have written. I have made such a collection, but without preserving the order in which they were composed, as I was not writing a historical narrative. So I have taken them as they happened to come to hand. I can only hope that you will not have cause to regret the advice you gave, and that I shall not repent having followed it; for I shall set to work to recover such letters as have up to now been tossed on one side, and I shall not keep back any that I may write in the future. Farewell..
12. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 1.1, 3.20, 9.2.2 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 1.1. To Septicius. You have constantly urged me to collect and publish the more highly finished of the letters that I may have written. I have made such a collection, but without preserving the order in which they were composed, as I was not writing a historical narrative. So I have taken them as they happened to come to hand. I can only hope that you will not have cause to regret the advice you gave, and that I shall not repent having followed it; for I shall set to work to recover such letters as have up to now been tossed on one side, and I shall not keep back any that I may write in the future. Farewell..

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
actium, battle of	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 49
africa	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 288
annals	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 82, 83
aristotle	Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 235
athenagoras	Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 235
aufidius bassus	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
augustus, and domus augusta	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
augustus, and one-man rule	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
augustus, and virtue	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
augustus, as pater and paterfamilias	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
augustus, as primus inter pares	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
augustus	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
author	Kingsley Monti and Rood, The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022) 374
autocracy, autocrat, tyranny, tyrant	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 83
border theory	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 288
caligula (roman emperor)	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
carthage, carthaginians	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 83
cato the elder	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 49
catullus	Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 140
claudius (roman emperor)	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
cluvius rufus	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
cornelius nepos	Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 140
courts, centumviral	Keeline, The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy (2018) 283
cremutius cordus, a.	Kingsley Monti and Rood, The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022) 386
cremutius cordus	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
ctesias of cnidus, cunaxa, battle of	Kingsley Monti and Rood, The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022) 374
de los reyes, tony	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 288
decline, historical, moral decline	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 78
decline, historical	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 78
delegation, and augustus	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
democracy	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
depicting, and seneca	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
depicting, and women	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
digression	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 288
dio cassius	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 49
discordia, civil war	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 82
domitian, emperor	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 49
domus augusta (imperial family), and augustus	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
elites, self-presentation of	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
emperor, princeps	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 82, 288
etruria, etruscans	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 288
fabius rusticus	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
flavians	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 78
florus	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 49
gamechanger	Kingsley Monti and Rood, The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022) 374
golden age	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 78
hadrian, emperor	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 82
herodotus	Kingsley Monti and Rood, The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022) 374; Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 235
histories	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 49
historiography, bias and	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
historiography, monarchy, impact of	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
historiography, principate and	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
historiography, republican	Kingsley Monti and Rood, The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022) 386
historiography, tacituss views of	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
hodology	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 288
homer	Kingsley Monti and Rood, The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022) 374
hybridity, hybridities	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 288
imperium	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 82
josephus	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
julio-claudians	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
livy	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 49, 288
logographers	Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 235
logographoi	Kingsley Monti and Rood, The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022) 374
longue durée	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 288
migration, immigration, immigrants and nomadism	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 288
mos, mores	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 82
munatius sulla cerialis, m., nero (roman emperor)	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
nomadism, migration	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 288
oligarchy	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
one-man rule, and augustus	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
one-man rule, rise of	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
optimates, populares	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 82
oratory	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 49
ovid	Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 140
paterfamilias	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
pax, peace	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 49, 82, 83
philistus	Kingsley Monti and Rood, The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022) 374
plebs, plebeians	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 82
pliny	Kingsley Monti and Rood, The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022) 386
pliny the elder	Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 140
pliny the elder (c. plinius secundus), bella germaniae	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
pliny the elder (c. plinius secundus)	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
pliny the younger, and the roman empire	Keeline, The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy (2018) 283
pliny the younger, anxieties of	Keeline, The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy (2018) 283, 284
pliny the younger, as friend of tacitus	Keeline, The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy (2018) 284
pliny the younger	Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 140; Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 49
plutarch	Kingsley Monti and Rood, The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022) 374
politics, imperial'	Keeline, The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy (2018) 283
politics, imperial	Keeline, The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy (2018) 284
polybius	Kingsley Monti and Rood, The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022) 374
populus	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 82
posidonius	Kingsley Monti and Rood, The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022) 374
praise (laus) and blame (uituperatio), moralising	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 82, 83
princeps	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 82
princeps (office)	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
principate, freedom of speech in	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
republic, the roman, memory and trauma	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 49, 82
res publica	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 82
sallust	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 49
senate, senators	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 82, 83
seneca, and nero	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
seneca, de clementia	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
sicily	Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 235
silius italicus	Keeline, The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy (2018) 283
spatiality, geography	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 288
suetonius, on nero	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
suetonius	Kingsley Monti and Rood, The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022) 374
tacitus, and the roman empire	Keeline, The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy (2018) 283, 284
tacitus, as friend of pliny	Keeline, The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy (2018) 284
tacitus, maternus as (not simply) mouthpiece of tacitus in	Keeline, The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy (2018) 284
tacitus, on narrow bounds	Keeline, The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy (2018) 283
tacitus, on principate	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
tacitus, p. cornelius	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 49, 82, 83, 288
tacitus, works annales (annals)	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
tacitus	Kingsley Monti and Rood, The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022) 386
tacitus (p. cornelius tacitus), government, analysis of	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
tacitus (p. cornelius tacitus), historical approach of	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
tacitus (p. cornelius tacitus)	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
thirdspace	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 288
thucydides	Kingsley Monti and Rood, The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022) 374
tiberius, emperor	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 82, 83
tiberius, nero	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
tiberius	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
timaeus	Kingsley Monti and Rood, The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022) 374
titus (roman emperor)	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
tradition	Kingsley Monti and Rood, The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022) 374
trajan, emperor	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 82
trauma, republic, the roman	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 49
tribunate, tribunes	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 82, 83
uirtus	Poulsen, Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography (2021), 83
vespasian	Crabb, Luke/Acts and the End of History (2020) 78
vespasian (roman emperor)	Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 47
wives, and nero	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 11
xenophon	Kingsley Monti and Rood, The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022) 374