Tacitus' annals:
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mellor, Ronald (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2010
Series:Oxford approaches to classical literature
Subjects:
Online Access:FAW01
FAW02
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index
The creation of a political historian -- - The historian and his sources -- - Ethnic prejudice in Tacitus -- - Ut pictura poesis : the visual representation of history -- - Freedom and censorship -- - A Tiberian narrative -- - Consorts of the Caesars -- - Courtiers on the Palatine : the familia of the Caesars -- - Performances at the court : the reigns of Claudius and Nero -- - The importance of Tacitus' Annals -- - The Julio-Claudian family (genealogy) -- - Map of the Roman Empire -- - Prominent persons
Tacitus' Annals is the central historical source for first-century C.E. Rome. It is prized by historians since it provides the best narrative material for the reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero, as well as a probing analysis of the imperial system of government. But the Annals should be seen as far more than an historical source, a mere mine for the reconstruction of the facts of Roman history. While the Annals is a superb work of history, it has also become a central text in the western literary, political, and even philosophical traditions - from the Renaissance to the French and America
Physical Description:xiv, 255 pages
ISBN:9780198034674
0198034679
9781282794740
1282794744
9780195151923
0195151925
9780195151930

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