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Tacitus and the Speech of Claudius on the Tabula Lugdunensis
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: Lampas, Volume 56, Issue 4, Dec 2023, p. 319 - 331
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- 01 Dec 2023
Abstract
Abstract
In AD 48 Claudius delivered a speech in support of a petition from Roman citizen elites of Gallia Comata for admission to the senate. Part of that speech survives on the Tabula Lugdunensis and in a version by Tacitus in his account of the Gauls’ petition in Annals 11. This paper demonstrates how Tacitus transforms, while respecting, his Claudian source, and offers some methodological considerations about his handling of speech.
© S.J.V. Malloch