The Cambridge companion to Tacitus / edited by A. J. Woodman.

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"Tacitus is universally recognised as ancient Rome's greatest writer of history, and his account of the Roman Empire in the first century AD has been fundamental in shaping the modern perception of Rome and its emperors. This Companion provides a new, up-to-date and authoritative assessment of his w...

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Other Authors: Woodman, A. J. (Anthony John), 1945-
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:
Tacitus, Cornelius > Criticism and interpretation.
Physical Description:xvi, 366 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • From the annalists to the Annales : Latin historiography before Tacitus / A.M. Gowing
  • Tacitus and the contemporary scene / A.J. Woodman
  • The Agricola / A.R. Birley
  • The Germania as literary text / Richard F. Thomas
  • The faces of eloquence : the Dialogus de oratoribus / Sander M. Goldberg
  • Fission and fusion : shifting Roman identities in the Histories / Rhiannon Ash
  • The Tiberian hexad / Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
  • Hamlet without the prince? : the Claudian Annals / S.J.V. Malloch
  • 'Is dying so very terrible?' : the Neronian Annals / E.E. Keitel
  • Tacitus' personal voice / Christopher Pelling
  • Tacitus as a historian / Miriam T. Griffin
  • Res olim dissociabiles : emperors, senators and liberty / S.P. Oakley
  • Style and language / S.P. Oakley
  • Speeches in the Histories / D.S. Levene
  • Warfare in the Annals / D.S. Levene
  • From manuscript to print / R.H. Martin
  • Tacitus and political thought in early modern Europe, c. 1530-c. 1640 / Alexandra Gajda
  • Gibbon and Tacitus / Paul Cartledge
  • A dangerous book : the reception of the Germania / C.B. Krebs
  • Tacitus and the twentieth-century novel / Martha Malamud
  • Tacitus' Syme / Mark Toher.