Types of Freedom and Submission in Tacitus' Agricola

In Aldo Setaioli (ed.), Apis Matina: Studi in onore di Carlo Santini. EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste. pp. 715-726 (2016)
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Abstract

Discusses conceptions of freedom displayed in Tacitus' Agricola. Tacitus seems to have had a clear-cut conceptual grid in which the German defectors, the Usipi, mirror the futile demonstrations of freedom by senators seeking a "ambitious death." The British provincials, including Calgacus and his followers, correspond to the ordinary Roman people and their leadership. It is in the army that a form of non-debasing hierarchy for the common benefit can be conceived, as long as the army and their leader is in the field. Problems arise when the military meets the civilian sphere.

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