The refreshed insights into early-imperial Roman historiography
this book offers are linked to a recent discovery. In the spring of
2014, the binders of the archive of Robert Marichal were dusted off
by the ERC funded project PLATINUM (ERC-StG 2014 n Degrees636983)
in response to Tiziano Dorandi's recollections of a series of
unpublished notes on Latin texts on papyrus. Among these was an
in-progress edition of the Latin rolls from Herculaneum, together
with Marichal's intuition that one of them had to be ascribed to a
certain 'Annaeus Seneca'. PLATINUM followed the unpublished
intuition by Robert Marichal as one path of investigation in its
own research and work. Working on the Latin P.Herc. 1067 led to
confirm Marichal's intuitions and to go beyond it: P.Herc. 1067 is
the only extant direct witness to Seneca the Elder's Historiae.
Bringing a new and important chapter of Latin literature arise out
of a charred papyrus is significant. The present volume is made up
of two complementary sections, each of which contains seven
contributions. They are in close dialogue with each other, as
looking at the same literary matter from several points of view
yields undeniable advantages and represents an innovative and
fruitful step in Latin literary criticism. These two sections
express the two different but interlinked axes along which the
contributions were developed. On one side, the focus is on the
starting point of the debate, namely the discovery of the papyrus
roll transmitting the Historiae of Seneca the Elder and how such a
discovery can be integrated with prior knowledge about this
historiographical work. On the other side, there is a broader view
on early-imperial Roman historiography, to which the new
perspectives opened by the rediscovery of Seneca the Elder's
Historiae greatly contribute.
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