Fabius Rusticus

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Fabius Rusticus was a Roman historian during the rule of the Flavians .

Fabius Rusticus probably came from Spain and was a young friend of Seneca . He probably wrote a historical work in the Flavian period, which the later historian Tacitus used for his work on the Neronian period and probably also for the year of the Four Emperors. Tacitus particularly valued his style in the work of Rusticus, but criticized his prejudice for Seneca. It is possible that Fabius Rusticus is the anonymous historian whom Quintilian praises. If he is identical to the recipient of a legacy of the same name from the will of Dasumius , he was still living in 108 AD in the vicinity of Tacitus and the younger Pliny .

The fragments are collected in The Fragments of the Roman Historians (No. 87).

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  • P. Cornelius Tacitus. Annals . Latin-German. Edited by Erich Heller. With an introduction by Manfred Fuhrmann (Tusculum Collection). Düsseldorf and Zurich 3rd edition 1997.
  • Tacitus. Agricola . Latin-German. Translated, explained and edited with an afterword by Robert Feger. (RUB 836) Stuttgart 1973.

literature

  • Fabius Rusticus. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 , Sp. 378.
  • Ronald Syme : Tacitus . 2 vols., Oxford 1958.
  • John Wilkes: Julio-Claudian Historians . In: Classical World 65 (1972), p. 177ff.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Tacitus, Annals 13.20,2.
  2. ↑ See the discussion in Syme, Tacitus , Vol. 1, pp. 179f .; P. 289ff.
  3. ↑ Tacitus, Agricola 10.3.
personal data
SURNAME Fabius Rusticus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rusticus, Fabius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century
DATE OF DEATH after 108