Burn after Reading: Literary Fires and Literary Memory in Tacitus's Annals

Virginia Closs
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Abstract:Tacitus's pointed use of fire-related metaphors in connection with three dissident authors in the Annals—Cremutius Cordus, Lucan, and Arulenus Rusticus—works proleptically against known aspects of each author's life and works. Such terms highlight the state-mandated burning of the books of Cremutius and Arulenus under Tiberius and Domitian, respectively; in the case of Lucan, Tacitus seems to be playing indirectly on the poet's fatal conflict with the "incendiary" Nero, as well as (perhaps) alluding to his lost De incendio urbis. Finally, the imagery and content of these episodes find further company in Tacitus's account of the Fire of 64.
阅后即焚:塔西佗编年史中的文学之火与文学记忆
摘要:塔西陀在与《编年史》中的三位持不同政见的作者——克鲁穆提乌斯·科杜斯、鲁坎和阿鲁莱努斯·鲁斯蒂库斯——的联系中,尖锐地使用了与火有关的隐喻,这对每一位作者的生活和作品的已知方面都起到了推波助澜的作用。这些条款突出了国家规定分别在提比略和多米先统治下焚烧克里穆修斯和阿鲁莱努斯的书籍;在鲁坎的例子中,塔西陀似乎间接地扮演了诗人与“煽动性”尼禄的致命冲突,以及(也许)暗指他失去的德·恩蒂奥·乌尔比斯。最后,这些情节的图像和内容在塔西陀对64年大火的描述中找到了进一步的联系。
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