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Tacitus (Paperback)
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Tacitus (Paperback)
Series: Understanding Classics
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The greatest of Roman historians, Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56-117
CE) studied rhetoric in Rome. His rhetorical and oratorical gifts
are evident throughout his most substantial works, the incomplete
but still remarkable Annals and Histories. In concise and
concentrated prose, marked by sometimes bitter and ironic
reflections on the human capacity to misuse power, Tacitus charts
the violent trajectory of the Roman Empire from Augustus' death in
14 CE to the end of Domitian's rule in 96. Victoria Emma Pagan
looks at Tacitus from a range of perspectives: as a literary
stylist, perhaps influenced by Sallust; his notion of time; his
modes of discourse; his place in the historiography of the era; and
the later reception of Tacitus in the Renaissance and early modern
periods. Tacitus remains of major interest to students of the
Bible, as well as classicists, by virtue of his reference to
'Christus' and Nero's persecution of the Christians after the great
fire of Rome in 64 CE. This lively survey enables its readers fully
to appreciate why, in holding a mirror up to venality and greed,
the work of Tacitus remains eternal.
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