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ISBN 10: 1405190329 

ISBN 13: 9781405190329

Author: Victoria Emma Pagán

A Companion to Tacitus brings much needed clarity and accessibility to the notoriously difficult language and yet indispensable historical accounts of Tacitus. The companion provides both a broad introduction and showcases new theoretical approaches that enrich our understanding of this complex author.

• Tacitus is one of the most important Roman historians of his time, as well as a great literary stylist, whose work is characterized by his philosophy of human nature
• Encourages interdisciplinary discussion intended to engage scholars beyond Classics including philosophy, cultural studies, political science, and literature
• Showcases new theoretical approaches that enrich our understanding of this complex author
• Clarifies and explains the notoriously difficult language of Tacitus
• Written and designed to prepare a new generation of scholars to examine for themselves the richness of Tacitean thought
• Includes contributions from a broad range of established international scholars and rising stars in the field

Table of contents:

PART I Texts
1 The Textual Transmission
Charles E. Murgia
2 The Agricola
Dylan Sailor
3 Germania
James B. Rives
4 Tacitus’ Dialogus de Oratoribus: A Socio-Cultural History
Steven H. Rutledge
5 The Histories
Jonathan Master
6 The Annals
Herbert W. Benario

PART II Historiography
7 Tacitus’ Sources
David S. Potter
8 Tacitus and Roman Historiography
Arthur Pomeroy
9 The Concentration of Power and Writing History: Forms of Historical Persuasion in the Histories (1.1–49)
Olivier Devillers

PART III Interpretations
10 Deliberative Oratory in the Annals and the Dialogus
Christopher S. van den Berg
11 Tacitus’ Senatorial Embassies of 69 CE
Kathryn Williams
12 Devotio, Disease, and Remedia in the Histories
Rebecca Edwards
13 Tacitus in the Twenty-First Century: The Struggle for Truth in Annals 1–6
Barbara Levick
14 Tacitus’ History and Mine
Holly Haynes
15 Seneca in Tacitus
James Ker

PART IV Intertextuality
16 Annum quiete et otio transiit: Tacitus (Ag. 6.3) and Sallust on Liberty, Tyranny, and Human Dignity
Christopher B. Krebs
17 “Let us tread our path together”: Tacitus and the Younger Pliny
Christopher Whitton
18 Tacitus and Epic
Timothy A. Joseph
19 Silius Italicus and Tacitus on the Tragic Hero: The Case of Germanicus
Eleni Manolaraki and Antony Augoustakis
20 Historian and Satirist: Tacitus and Juvenal
Catherine Keane

PART V Theoretical Approaches
21 Masculinity and Gender Performance in Tacitus
Thomas Späth
22 Women and Domesticity
Kristina Milnor
23 Postcolonial Approaches to Tacitus
Nancy Shumate
24 Tacitus and Political Thought
Daniel Kapust

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