Research Catalog

Title

A companion to Tacitus / edited by Victoria Emma Pagán.

Publication

Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

Pagán, Victoria Emma, 1965-

Description

xvii, 599 pages; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture

Uniform Title

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.

Alternative Title

Tacitus

Subjects

• Historiography
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Rome (Empire)
• Rome > Historiography
• Tacitus, Cornelius > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-564) and index.

Contents

The textual transmission / Charles E. Murgia -- The Agricola / Dylan Sailor -- Germania / James B. Rives -- Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus : a socio-cultural history / Steven H. Rutledge -- The histories / Jonthan Master -- The annals / Herbert W. Benario -- Tacitus' sources / David Potter -- Tacitus and Roman historiography / Arthur Pomeroy -- The concentration of power and writing history : forms of historical persuasion in The histories (1.1-49) / Olivier Devillers -- Deliberative oratory in The annals and the Dialogus / Christopher S. van den Berg -- Tacitus' senatorial embassies of 69 CE / Kathryn Williams -- Deuotio, disease, and remedia in The histories / Rebecca Edwards -- Tacitus in the twenty-first century : the struggle for truth in Annals 1-6 / Barbara Levick -- Tacitus' history and mine / Holly Haynes -- Seneca in Tacitus / James Ker -- Annum quiete et otio transiit : Tacitus (Ag. 6.3) and Sallust on liberty, tyranny, and human dignity / Christopher B. Krebs -- "Let us tread our path together" : Tacitus and the Younger Pliny / Christopher Whitton -- Tacitus and epic / Timothy A. Joseph -- Silius italicus and Tacitus on the tragic hero : the case of Germanicus / Eleni Manolaraki and Antony Augoustakis -- Historian and satirist : Tacitus and Juvenal / Catherine Keane -- Masculinity and gender performance in Tacitus / Thomas Späth -- Women and domesticity / Kristina Milnor -- Postcolonial approaches to Tacitus / Nancy Shumate -- Tacitus and political thought / Daniel Kapust.

Call Number

PA6716

ISBN

• 9781405190329 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1405190329 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781444354157
• 1444354159
• 9781444354164
• 1444354167
• 9781444354171
• 1444354175
• 1444354183 (Wiley Online Library)
• 9781444354188 (Wiley Online Library)
• 9781444354188 (Wiley Online Library) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2011024866

OCLC

732318601

Title

A companion to Tacitus / edited by Victoria Emma Pagán.

Imprint

Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-564) and index.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Added Author

Pagán, Victoria Emma, 1965-

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PA6716 .C66 2012