Tacitus on the Parthians

Dąbrowa, Edward

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“…7 Livy, Per. 141; Syme 1988, 367;Overtoom 2016, 147-150;Dąbrowa 2017, 173-174. 8 Seel 1972Alonso-Núñez 1987, 60-61.…”

Section: Pompeius Trogus: His Background and His Philippic Historiesmentioning

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Judean Piracy, Judea and Parthia, and the Roman Annexation of Judea: The Evidence of Pompeius Trogus

Atkinson

2022

Electrum

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Pompey the Great’s 63 BCE conquest of the Jewish kingdom known as the Hasmonean State has traditionally been viewed as an inevitable event since the Roman Republic had long desired to annex the Middle Eastern nations. The prevailing consensus is that the Romans captured the Hasmonean state, removed its high-priest kings from power, and made its territory part of the Republic merely through military force. However, Justin’s Epitome of the Philippic Histories of Pompeius Trogus is a neglected source of new information for understanding relations between the Romans and the Jews at this time. Trogus’s brief account of this period alludes to a more specific reason, or at least, circumstance for Pompey’s conquest of Judea. His work contains evidence that the Jews were involved in piracy, of the type the Republic had commissioned Pompey to eradicate. In addition to this activity that adversely affected Roman commercial interests in the Mediterranean, the Jews were also involved with the Seleucid Empire and the Nabatean Arabs, both of whom had dealings with the Parthians. Piracy, coupled with Rome’s antagonism towards the Parthians, negatively impacted the Republic’s attitude towards the Jews. Considering the evidence from Trogus, Roman fears of Jewish piracy and Jewish links to the Republic’s Parthian enemies were not unfounded.

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“…7 Livy, Per. 141; Syme 1988, 367;Overtoom 2016, 147-150;Dąbrowa 2017, 173-174. 8 Seel 1972Alonso-Núñez 1987, 60-61.…”

Section: Pompeius Trogus: His Background and His Philippic Historiesmentioning

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Judean Piracy, Judea and Parthia, and the Roman Annexation of Judea: The Evidence of Pompeius Trogus

Atkinson

2022

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“…Ces écoles envisagent même de se proposer aux Séleucides comme nouveaux intermédiaires, les pharisiens appelant Démétrios III à intervenir en Judée en 89/8 av. J.-C. 54 et se passant /p. 275/ donc de l'intermédiaire maccabéen pour contacter le pouvoir.…”

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De la confiance à la guerre eschatologique : normativités compétitrices et légitimation politique en Judée séleucide et romaine (200 av. J.-C. - 70 apr. J.-C.)

Girardin¹

2020

Judaïsme Ancien - Ancient Judaism

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De la confiance à la guerre eschatologique : normativités compétitrices et légitimation politique en Judée séleucide et romaine (200 av. J.-C. -70 apr. J.-C.) 1 » p. 249 Résumé. -À l'aide du concept de « normativités » employé dans d'autres sciences humaines pour définir les conceptions que peuvent se faire des groupes de ce qui est (ou devrait être) la norme socio-politique, cet article se propose de mettre en évidence la pluralité des conceptions cosmogoniques, politiques et théocratiques des judaïsmes dès avant la conquête séleucide de Jérusalem en 200 av. J.-C. Les éléments cognitifs sont exploités pour montrer l'importance, dans chaque milieu, de construire, d'entretenir, d'instrumentaliser ou, au contraire, d'empêcher les rapports de confiance entre les individus et les pouvoirs en place pour légitimer (ou délégitimer) l'ordre présent. Cette grille d'analyse permet de montrer que la domination romaine n'a pas fait éclater le judaïsme antique, car celui-ci était depuis longtemps déjà profondément pluriel ; elle n'a fait que faciliter leur irrémédiable séparation.

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“…Only in some exceptional cases does he mention the events of the Republic era. E. Dąbrowa noticed that such a choice of subjects by Tacitus can be both a consequence of the desire to follow to the chosen chronological structure, and be determined by other reasons and depend on the internal Roman realities caused by the rule of the Flavian and early Antonine periods 11 .…”

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“…prosperae in Armenia Res Addiderant”: Corbulo, Tacitus and Constructing the Images of Rome’s Early Imperial Campaigns in Armenia

Humennyi¹

2022

Visn. Lviv. Univ., Ser. Istor.

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he Roman historiography of the early Antonine era is represented by the works of Tacitus, whose texts are our main source for the attempts to solve certain problems of the history of early imperial Rome and the history of the surrounding regions. In this context, two central problems arise and still remain: the search for the origins of those models that Tacitus used as the basis for his description of the situation in Armenia in the middle of the 1st century CE and on the other hand – the actual problems of using the evidence of Tacitus for the reconstruction of the events of Nero's time which, in our opinion even in Tacitus’s works seems to be more complicated that the events of Corbulo’s activity in the East. Using the example of Rome's policy in the Caucasus region, the author states, that for a proper reconstruction of Rome's military policy in the East, we need to take into account the contexts and approaches with which Tacitus wrote his text, and in which his own narrative strategies were ephemerally combined. The first of them was the inclusion of major military and political events in the context of the activities of prominent political figures of the era. The role of “key bright figures” in the age of Julius-Claudius becomes dominant. To some extent, it is the role of prominent figures in history (but not Emperors) that lies at the heart of how Tacitus constructs Rome's past. The discussion over the early provincial offices of Corbulo at this point cannot be solved clearly. In the time of Augustus, the role of the Emperor at this time becomes quite important – he coordinated and controlled foreign policy measures, either personally or through his relatives and friends. Tiberius tries to strengthen the position of the provincial administration, and this policy proved to be effective. Neither Caligula nor Claudius particularly changed the trend set by their predecessors. For the Armenian campaigns of Rome at the time of Nero, Corbulo became the main figure for the narrative of Tacitus. Corbulo, as the author states, did not act as a protégé of certain circles at the imperial court, but within the framework of practices already common to the imperial court and provincial administration. Corbulo, despite the fact that his unique role was no more than a narrative strategy that reflected the practices of the era and despite the fact that the reconstruction of his powers and actual influence, according to most of existing scholarship, is problematic, in hands of Tacitus acts as the figure who is the creator of all politics Rome in the Caucasus region. Secondly, the narrative of Tacitus can be placed in the larger context of the age of Hadrian, when the Romans were forced to abandon the provinces created by Trajan and the conquered territories and retreat. The impossibility of destroying Parthian power in the region by military means prompted Roman authors to seek an explanation for the events witnessed by the Romans. Against all this background, in fact, lies the actual course of the Roman-Parthian conflict in the age of Nero, which requires the researcher to pay close attention and which reminds him once again that his predecessors, even in the ancient era, wrote histories based as on their subjective ideas and questions that worried their contemporaries.

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Tacitus on the Parthians

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Judean Piracy, Judea and Parthia, and the Roman Annexation of Judea: The Evidence of Pompeius Trogus

Judean Piracy, Judea and Parthia, and the Roman Annexation of Judea: The Evidence of Pompeius Trogus

De la confiance à la guerre eschatologique : normativités compétitrices et légitimation politique en Judée séleucide et romaine (200 av. J.-C. - 70 apr. J.-C.)

“…prosperae in Armenia Res Addiderant”: Corbulo, Tacitus and Constructing the Images of Rome’s Early Imperial Campaigns in Armenia

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