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Book SynopsisIn this volume distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore the work of Tacitus in its historical and literary context and also show how his text was interpreted in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Discussed here, for example, are the ways predilections of a particular age color one's reading of a complex author and why
Table of ContentsIntroductionRonald Syme - A Brief TributeAbbreviations1Tacitus and the Province of Asia32Reading and Response in the Dialogus113Speech and Narrative in Histories 4394Tacitus and Germanicus595In maiores certamina: Past and Present in the Annals866Amateur Dramatics at the Court of Nero: Annals 15.48-741047Tacitean Prudentia and the Doctrines of Justus Lipsius1298Tacitus Noster: The Germania in the Renaissance and Reformation1529Politics, Taste, and National Identity: Some Uses of Tacitism in Eighteenth-Century Britain168Bibliography185List of Contributors201General Index203Index of Passages Cited207
