Table des matières
2. Uncertainty in Context
- 2.1 Uncertainty and the Human Condition
- 2.1.1 The Ubiquity of Uncertainty
- 2.1.2 Temporal Uncertainty
- 2.1.3 Hermeneutic Uncertainty
- 2.1.4 Temporal and Hermeneutic Uncertainty Entwined
- 2.1.5 Narrative and Uncertainty
- Narrative and Temporal Uncertainty
- Narrative and Hermeneutic Uncertainty
- 2.2 Uncertainty and Rome
- 2.2.1 The End of the Republic between Contingency and Teleology
- 2.2.2 The Transition from Republic to Empire as a Shift of Knowledge
- 2.3 Summary
3. Velleius Paterculus – Shutting down Uncertainty
- 3.1 A Survey of Recent Scholarship
- About this Chapter
- 3.2 Narrative Grappling with Uncertainty
- 3.2.1 Periodization in Velleius: Continuity and Teleology
- 3.2.2 Narrative Form: The Construction of Tense and Voice
- The Construction of Tense
- The Construction of Voice
- Excursus: Enargeia, Embodiment, Visualization
- 3.3 The Re-entry of Uncertainty: Fortune, Fate, Felicities
- 3.4 Conclusion
4. Livy – Putting Uncertainty on Stage
- 4.1 A Survey of Recent Scholarship
- About this Chapter
- 4.2 Narratives of Uncertainty in the Caudine Forks
- 4.2.1 Uncertainty and the Locus Amoenus
- 4.2.2 Expectation and Experience
- 4.2.3 Herennius’ Oracle and Livy’s Virtual History
- 4.2.4 Rivalling Voices and Polyphony
- Postumius and Pontius
- Ambiguous Exemplarity after Caudium
- 4.3 The Limits of Uncertainty: Closure in Caudium
- 4.4 Conclusion