A companion to Tacitus
By: edited by Victoria Emma Pagán
Series: Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture; Blackwell companions to the ancient world
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 599
ISBN-13: 9781405190329; 9781444354157; 9781444354164; 9781444354171; 9781444354188
Subjects: Historiography; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The textual transmission / Charles E. Murgia; title: The Agricola / Dylan Sailor; title: Germania / James B. Rives; title: Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus : a socio-cultural history / Steven H. Rutledge; title: The histories / Jonthan Master; title: The annals / Herbert W. Benario; title: Tacitus' sources / David Potter; title: Tacitus and Roman historiography / Arthur Pomeroy; title: The concentration of power and writing history : forms of historical persuasion in The histories (1.1-49) / Olivier Devillers; title: Deliberative oratory in The annals and the Dialogus / Christopher S. van den Berg; title: Tacitus' senatorial embassies of 69 CE / Kathryn Williams; title: Deuotio, disease, and remedia in The histories / Rebecca Edwards; title: Tacitus in the twenty-first century : the struggle for truth in Annals 1-6 / Barbara Levick; title: Tacitus' history and mine / Holly Haynes; title: Seneca in Tacitus / James Ker; title: Annum quiete et otio transiit : Tacitus (Ag. 6.3) and Sallust on liberty, tyranny, and human dignity / Christopher B. Krebs; title: "Let us tread our path together" : Tacitus and the Younger Pliny / Christopher Whitton; title: Tacitus and epic / Timothy A. Joseph; title: Silius italicus and Tacitus on the tragic hero : the case of Germanicus / Eleni Manolaraki and Antony Augoustakis; title: Historian and satirist : Tacitus and Juvenal / Catherine Keane; title: Masculinity and gender performance in Tacitus / Thomas Späth; title: Women and domesticity / Kristina Milnor; title: Postcolonial approaches to Tacitus / Nancy Shumate; title: Tacitus and political thought / Daniel Kapust.