Description
Book SynopsisOffers the first comprehensive analysis of Tacitus’ five texts and their interconnections and serves to confront longstanding assumptions that have led to a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature and development of his oeuvre and historical thinking.
Trade Review“The author’s writing is clear and straightforward, and his knowledge of Tacitean scholarship is also impressive. Overall, the book is peppered with interesting insights. Ten Berge is a diligent and careful scholar.” —Eric Adler, University of Maryland
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Preliminary Remarks: Background
- Tacitus and Verginius Rufus: Funeral and Ideology
- CHAPTER 1: Agricola: Enunciating Tacitean Concerns and Techniques
- CHAPTER 2: Germania: Reading Ethnography alongside Biography
- CHAPTER 3: Dialogus de Oratoribus: Rehabilitating the ‘Anomaly’
- CHAPTER 4: Historiae: Biography, Ethnography, and Dialogue as Sources for Historiographical Narrative
- CHAPTER 5: Annales: Finalizing an Integrated Project
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
