The tradition about the mons Caelius
This essay offers three arguments concerning the ancient tradition about the mons Caelius. (1) Tacitus’ digression on the name of the mons Caelius at Annals 4.65 provides a useful framework for interpreting the complexity of the tradition: Caeles Vibenna should be regarded as a constant feature, his...
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| description | This essay offers three arguments concerning the ancient tradition about the mons Caelius. (1) Tacitus’ digression on the name of the mons Caelius at Annals 4.65 provides a useful framework for interpreting the complexity of the tradition: Caeles Vibenna should be regarded as a constant feature, his chronological context as an unstable feature that was recognised as such. (2) Claudius’ report of Etruscan auctores on the naming of the mons Caelius in his speech of A.D. 48 about the Gauls, correctly emended, offers a unique etymology that cannot be reconciled with Roman accounts. (3) The presence of appellitare in Tacitus’ digression and Claudius’ speech is normally assumed to prove Tacitus’ debt to Claudius, but this assumption cannot be sustained in the face of their fundamentally irreconcilable treatments of Caeles Vibenna. Tacitus used appellitare independently of Claudius, who was not a source of Ann. 4.65. |
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| spelling | nottingham-498392020-05-04T18:33:40Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49839/ The tradition about the mons Caelius Malloch, S.J.V. This essay offers three arguments concerning the ancient tradition about the mons Caelius. (1) Tacitus’ digression on the name of the mons Caelius at Annals 4.65 provides a useful framework for interpreting the complexity of the tradition: Caeles Vibenna should be regarded as a constant feature, his chronological context as an unstable feature that was recognised as such. (2) Claudius’ report of Etruscan auctores on the naming of the mons Caelius in his speech of A.D. 48 about the Gauls, correctly emended, offers a unique etymology that cannot be reconciled with Roman accounts. (3) The presence of appellitare in Tacitus’ digression and Claudius’ speech is normally assumed to prove Tacitus’ debt to Claudius, but this assumption cannot be sustained in the face of their fundamentally irreconcilable treatments of Caeles Vibenna. Tacitus used appellitare independently of Claudius, who was not a source of Ann. 4.65. Franz Steiner Verlag 2018-10-01 Article PeerReviewed Malloch, S.J.V. (2018) The tradition about the mons Caelius. Hermes, 146 (4). pp. 454-469. ISSN 0018-0777 Rome; Tacitus; mons Caelius; History; Latin; Claudius Varro Festus https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/fsv/hermes/2018/00000146/00000004/art00005 doi:10.25162/hermes-2018-0039 doi:10.25162/hermes-2018-0039 |
| spellingShingle | Rome; Tacitus; mons Caelius; History; Latin; Claudius Varro Festus Malloch, S.J.V. The tradition about the mons Caelius |
| title | The tradition about the mons Caelius |
| title_full | The tradition about the mons Caelius |
| title_fullStr | The tradition about the mons Caelius |
| title_full_unstemmed | The tradition about the mons Caelius |
| title_short | The tradition about the mons Caelius |
| title_sort | tradition about the mons caelius |
| topic | Rome; Tacitus; mons Caelius; History; Latin; Claudius Varro Festus |
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