By: Rhiannon Ash (Editor)

Hardcover

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This collection of seminal and lively articles on the Roman historian of the early empire, Tacitus, is written by a wide range of established experts in the field. Tacitus is best known for his extraordinary historical narratives on the Roman emperors from Tiberius to Nero and the civil wars which followed the death of Nero in AD 68. The articles are designed to reflect the main trends in scholarship on Tacitus, particularly as they have developed over the last century, and to situate this Roman author in his literary and historical context.

Beginning with a comprehensive introduction, Ash sets the selected scholarship in context and discusses the history of modern critical responses to Tacitus. Covering the whole of Tacitus' works (the Agricola, Germania, Dialogus, as well as the historical narratives, the Histories and the Annals), this volume also includes articles published in English for the very first time.

Preface IntroductionR. ASH: 1: K. CLARKE: An Island Nation: Re-Reading Tacitus Agricola 2: W. LIEBESCHUETZ: The Theme of Liberty in the Agricola of Tacitus 3: E. O GORMAN: There s No Place Like Rome: Identity and Difference in the Germania of Tacitus 4: S. BARTSCH: Praise and Doublespeak: Tacitus Dialogus 5: S. GOLDBERG: Appreciating Aper: The Defence of Modernity in Tacitus Dialogus de Oratoribus 6: E. PARATORE: The Agricola: Stepping-Stone to History 7: N. P. MILLER AND P. V. JONES: Critical Appreciations III: Tacitus, Histories 3.38-9 8: D.S. LEVENE: Pity, Fear, and the Historical Audience: Tacitus on the Fall of Vitellius 9: R. MARTIN: Tacitus and the Death of Augustus 10: R. SYME: Obituaries in Tacitus 11: J. GINSBURG: The Beginning of the Year 12: C. PELLING: Tacitus and Germanicus 13: A.J. WOODMAN: Nero s Alien Capital 14: T.J. LUCE: Tacitus Conception of Historical Change 15: F.R.D. GOODYEAR: Development of Language and Style in the Annals of Tacitus 16: R. BLOCH: Tacitus Excursus on the Jews through the Ages: An Overview of its Reception History 17: A. MOMIGLIANO: Tacitus and the Tacitist Tradition 18: L. TRILLING: Tacitus Now Acknowledgements Bibliography

ISBN: 9780199285082
ISBN-10: 019928508X
Series: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 496
Published: 21st June 2012
Dimensions (cm): 22.2 x 14.9  x 3.27
Weight (kg): 0.698