Description
Book SynopsisThis collection is designed to reflect the main trends in scholarship on the Roman historian of the early empire, Tacitus, particularly as they have developed over the last century. Covering the whole of Tacitus' works, it begins with a comprehensive introduction which sets the selected scholarship and Roman author in context.
Table of ContentsPREFACE ; INTRODUCTION ; 1. An Island Nation: Re-Reading Tacitus Agricola ; 2. The Theme of Liberty in the Agricola of Tacitus ; 3. There s No Place Like Rome: Identity and Difference in the Germania of Tacitus ; 4. Praise and Doublespeak: Tacitus Dialogus ; 5. Appreciating Aper: The Defence of Modernity in Tacitus Dialogus de Oratoribus ; 6. The Agricola: Stepping-Stone to History ; 7. Critical Appreciations III: Tacitus, Histories 3.38-9 ; 8. Pity, Fear, and the Historical Audience: Tacitus on the Fall of Vitellius ; 9. Tacitus and the Death of Augustus ; 10. Obituaries in Tacitus ; 11. The Beginning of the Year ; 12. Tacitus and Germanicus ; 13. Nero s Alien Capital ; 14. Tacitus Conception of Historical Change ; 15. Development of Language and Style in the Annals of Tacitus ; 16. Tacitus Excursus on the Jews through the Ages: An Overview of its Reception History ; 17. Tacitus and the Tacitist Tradition ; 18. Tacitus Now ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; BIBLIOGRAPHY
