Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2012.

x, 475 p. ; 22 cm.

Oxford readings in classical studies

Oxford readings in classical studies.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-469) and index.

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.

Tacitus, Cornelius. Annales.

Tacitus, Cornelius -- Criticism and interpretation.

Rome -- History -- Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D. -- Historiography.

Rome -- Historiography.

Ash, Rhiannon.

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