Writing and Empire in Tacitus

Informationen zum Autor DYLAN SAILOR is Assistant Professor at the University of California! Berkeley. Klappentext A literary and historical interpretation of the literary career of the Roman historian Tacitus. Zusammenfassung A literary and historical interpretation of the literary career of the Roman historian Tacitus. It looks at how his writings Agricola! Histories! and Annals project an image of their author! and how they argue for the political importance of writing history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. A life, in fragments; 1. Autonomy, authority, and representing the past under the Principate; 2. Agricola and the crisis of representation; 3. The burdens of Histories; 4. 'Elsewhere than Rome'; 5. Tacitus and Cremutius; Conclusion. On knowing Tacitus.

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• Authors: Dylan Sailor, Dylan (University of California Sailor, Sailor Dylan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.10.2008
• EAN: 9780521897471
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89747-1
• No. of pages: 372
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; European History, Latin, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval