The histories of Roman senator Cornelius Tacitus constitute the
most influential examination of tyranny, political behavior and
public morality from the classical age. For centuries these
portraits of courageous martyrs to freedom, of paranoid tyrants,
and of sycophantic flatteres and informers shaped modern political
attitudes. Ronald Mellor provides a compelling analysis of the
ideas of the greatest historian of evil in the western intellectual
tradition. In Tacitus, Ronald Mellor passionately argues for
reclaiming this ironic genius whose cynical world view is
particularly well-suited to an analysis of the tyranny and
brutality in our own century. Tacitus is presented as a moralist,
psychologist, political analyst and literary artist. Tacitus'
greatest impact has never been on historians. Rather, his political
vision and dramatic images left their mark on painters, poets and
thinkers.
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