By A. J. Woodman
Tacitus is universally well-known as historical Rome's maximum author of background, and his account of the Roman Empire within the first century advert has been primary in shaping the trendy conception of Rome and its emperors. This better half offers a brand new, updated and authoritative evaluate of his paintings and effect in an effort to be beneficial for college kids and non-specialists in addition to of curiosity to validated students within the box. First situating Tacitus in the culture of Roman old writing and his personal modern society, it is going directly to examine every one of his person works after which talk about key issues equivalent to his unique authorial voice and his perspectives of historical past and freedom. It ends by way of tracing Tacitus' reception, starting with the transition from manuscript to revealed versions, describing his impact on political inspiration in early glossy Europe, and concluding together with his value within the 20th century.
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5) may have been intended as a response 13 On Tacitus and Juvenal see Courtney (1980) on Juv. 102–3; Syme (1984) 1142–57. 14 After Statius’ death, Tacitus’ reference to ‘breaking courage’ (H. 888). 2): Silius had a military and political career in addition to being the author of the Punica, the story of Rome’s war with Hannibal. 15 Certainly he had read Silius with care: iacuit immensa strages, his memorable description of the aftermath of Sejanus’ fall (A. 137–8), as is the senators’ ‘penetration by panic’ a few chapters later (A.
There is also a good deal of recent and forthcoming work in the field of Roman historiography. Marincola (2007) contains articles by leading scholars on all aspects of Roman historiography and historians; Feldherr (2009) is almost as comprehensive. Much work has been done as well on the fragmentary historians. ’ In contrast to Marincola, however, I am less inclined to regard Tacitus’ expressed distaste for early imperial historians as merely a rhetorical pose: I imagine he really believed Livy and Sallust to be great writers, and the rest quite mediocre.
22. ; also below, pp. 226–7. 20 From the annalists to the Annales Yet Tacitus is being a little coy. As he describes it, the annalists’ subject matter is after all not so very different from his own: war and military conflict, the adventures of client and renegade kings, senatorial disputes and legal matters all come under his purview. He is quite right that the principate – and the presence of the princeps – adds a dimension to his task (and that of every imperial historian) entirely missing from that of the annalists (see especially the remarks at H.