Tacitus: Dialogus de oratoribus

List of contents

Introduction: 1. The background; 2. Tacitus' career; 3. The Agricola; 4. Fame; 5. The state of oratory; 6. The Dialogus; 7. Authenticity; 8. Date of composition; 9. The style of the work; 10. The lay-out of the Dialogus; 11. Characters and characterization; 12. The transmission of the text; CORNELI TACITI DIALOGVS DE ORATORIBVS; Commentary.

Summary

An edition of Tacitus' work on oratory, with a substantial introduction and commentary. The commentary is designed to elucidate problems of language and reference in the text and to put the reader in the picture as regards late first-century AD society and literature.

Product details

• Authors: Tacitus, Cornelius Tacitus
• Assisted by: Roland Mayer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.05.2001
• EAN: 9780521469968
• ISBN: 978-0-521-46996-8
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 185 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 255 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary essays, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory