Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus is his most neglected work - there
has not been an English-language commentary in over a century - and
yet it is arguably his most original. Although among his earliest
writings it shows complete mastery of the dialogue from and of
Ciceronian idiom. It makes an original contribution to the
continuing first-century AD debate about the role of oratory in
Rome under the Principate, and raises the question of what a man
can do to secure lasting renown. This edition contains a
substantial introduction discussing such matters as the place of
the work in the author's oeuvre, its style and layout. The
commentary is designed to explain not only the language, and its
subtle reformation of the Ciceronian idiom, but also the large
issues mentioned about the decline of oratory, and the best career
for a man to follow.
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