Oxford Readings in Tacitus [Paperback]

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 (theAgricola,Germania,Dialogus, as well as the historical narratives, theHistoriesand theAnnals), this volume also includes articles published in English for the very first time.

Preface
IntroductionR. ASH
1. An Island Nation: Re-Reading Tacitus Agricola,K. CLARKE
2. The Theme of Liberty in the Agricola of Tacitus,W. LIEBESCHUETZ
3. There s No Place Like Rome: Identity and Difference in the Germania of Tacitus,E. O GORMAN
4. Praise and Doublespeak: Tacitus Dialogus,S. BARTSCH
5. Appreciating Aper: The Defence of Modernity in Tacitus Dialogus de Oratoribus,S. GOLDBERG
6. The Agricola: Stepping-Stone to History,E. PARATORE
7. Critical Appreciations III: Tacitus, Histories 3.38-9,N. P. MILLER AND P. V. JONES
8. Pity, Fear, and the Historical Audience: Tacitus on the Fall of Vitellius,D.S. LEVENE
9. Tacitus and the Death of Augustus,R. MARTIN
10. Obituaries in Tacitus,R. SYME
11. The Beginning of the Year,J. GINSBURG
12. Tacitus and Germanicus,C. PELLING
13. Nero s Alien Capital,A.J. WOODMlÍ