Title: Tacitus /
Authors: Ash, Rhiannon.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Tacitus, Cornelius.; Tacitus, Cornelius Criticism and interpretation.; Rome History Historiography.; Rome Historiography
Abstract: "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"--Publisher's description, back cover.
Contents: An island nation : re-reading Tacitus' 'Agricola' / Katherine Clarke -- The theme of liberty in the 'Agricola' of Tacitus / W. Liebeschuetz -- No place like Rome : identity and difference in the 'Germania' of Tacitus / Ellen O'Gorman -- Praise and doublespeak : Tacitus' 'Dialogus' / Shadi Bartsch -- Appreciating Aper : the defence of modernity in Tacitus' 'Dialogus de Oratoribus' / Sander M. Goldberg -- The 'Agricola' : stepping-stone to history / Ettore Paratore -- Critical appreciations III: Tacitus, 'Histories' 3:38-9 / N. P. Miller and P. V. Jones -- Pity, fear, and the historical audience : Tacitus on the fall of Vitellius / D. S. Levene -- Tacitus and the death of Augustus / Ronald Martin -- Obituaries in Tacitus / Sir Ronald Syme -- The beginning of the year in Tacitus / Judith Ginsburg -- Tacitus and Germanicus / Christopher Pelling -- Nero's alien capital : Tacitus as paradoxographer ('Annals' 15.36-7) / A. J. Woodman -- Tacitus' conception of historical change : the problems of discovering the historian's opinions / T. J. Luce -- Development of language and style in the 'Annals' of Tacitus / F. R. D. Goodyear -- Tacitus' Excursus on the Jews through the ages : an overview of its reception history / René Bloch -- Tacitus and the Tacitist tradition / Arnaldo Momigliano -- Tacitus now / Lionel Trilling.