Virtus Romana: Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians by Catalina Balmaceda

Author:Catalina Balmaceda
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Ancient, Rome, Historiography
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2017-01-15T00:46:00.982000+00:00

1. See, for example, Syme, Velleius’ most powerful enemy: “Mendacious as well as misleading,” in “Marcus Vinicius (cos. 19 B.C.),” 147n3; “fraudulent,” in Roman Revolution, 393n1.; “an uneasy amalgam of adulation and mendacity,” in “Livy and Augustus,” 69; “adulatory and dishonest,” in Ten Studies in Tacitus, 47. Also Leeman, Orationis Ratio, 248: “miles sapiens turned into a historicus insipiens”; and Paladini, “Studi su Velleio Patercolo,” 71: “Velleio è un storico di non troppi scrupoli e di nessuna profondità.”

2. Marincola, “Genre, Convention and Innovation in Greco-Roman Historiography,” 317.

3. Woodman, Velleius Paterculus. The commentary covers chaps. 2.94–131.

4. It is odd, though, that this collection does not include a specific paper dealing with the emperor Tiberius, who is acknowledged as the principal figure of Velleius’ whole work.

5. Cf. Kraus and Woodman, Latin Historians, 83.

6. For Velleius’ career, see Sumner, “Truth about Velleius Paterculus,” 265–79; Millar, “Ovid and the Domus Augusta,” 5–6; Levick, “Velleius Paterculus as Senator,” 1–16.

7. Cf. Noè, Storiografia imperiale pretacitiana, 95.

8. Dio, 53.19.2.

9. Toher, “Augustus and the Evolution of Roman Historiography,” 153.

10. For a recent analysis of Velleius’ historical work, see Rich, “Velleius’ History,” 73–92.

11. Cf. Syme, “History or Biography,” 481. See also Woodman, Velleius Paterculus, 28–56.

12. As Cicero had suggested in De Or, 2.63.

13. Here I aligned myself with Schmitzer, “Roman Values in Velleius,” 199. See also Balmaceda, “Tiberio, optimus princeps en Veleyo Patérculo,” 309–19; and Lobur, Consensus, Concordia, and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology, 115.

14. Vell. 2.1.1: quippe remoto Carthaginis metu sublataque imperii aemula non gradu, sed praecipiti cursu a virtute descitum, ad vitia transcursum.

15. Vell. 2.89.3.

16. For the difference in meanings of virtus and virtutes, see, for example, Eisenhut, Virtus Romana; McDonnell, Roman Manliness; Sarsila, Being a Man; Balmaceda, “Virtus Romana en el siglo I a.C.,” 285–303.

17. Speed was advised by Lucian when the information and data were too extensive in De Hist. Conscr, 56: “Rapidity is everywhere useful, especially if there is no lack of material.” See also Dion. Hal. De Thuc, 24 and 53; Quint. Inst. 10.1.2 and 4.2.45. Cf. Woodman, “Questions of Date, Genre and Style in Velleius,” 272–305.

18. Cf. Vell. 2.1.1 = Sall. Hist, 1.12.

19. Cf. Vell. 2.92.5 = Sall. BC 3.2.

20. E.g., Vell. 2.4.4: fugaret ac funderet = Sall. BJ 21, 2: fugant funduntque; 2.112.7: dignum furore suo habuit exitum = Sall. BC 55.6: dignum moribus factisque suis exitum.

21. See, for example, 2.89.3; 2.126.2.

22. Cf. Starr, “Velleius’ Literary Techniques,” 295.

23. Cf. Vell. 1.12.3: Scipio Aemilianus, vir avitis P. Africani paternisque L. Pauli virtutibus simillimus …

24. Cf. Vell. 2.3.2: Tum P. Scipio Nasica (…) ob eas virtutes primus omnium absens pontifex maximus factus est.

25. Cf. Vell. 2.22.3: Q. Catulus, et aliarum virtutum et belli Cunbrici gloria, quae illi eum Mario communis fuerat celeberrimus.

26. Cf. Vell. 2.93.1: (…) iuvenis, sane, ut aiunt, ingenuarum virtutum laetusque animi et ingenii fortunaeque, in quam alebatur, capax.

27. Cf. Vell. 2.97.2: Druso Claudio, fratri Neronis, adulescenti tot tantarumque virtutum, quot et quantas natura mortalis recipit vel industria perficit.

28. Cf. Vell. 2.125.5: M. Lepidus, de cuius virtutibus celeberrimaque in Illyrico militia praediximus …

29.

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