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Tacitus Reviewed

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Title: Tacitus Reviewed
Author: A J Woodman
ISBN: 9780198152583
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1998
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good


Literary Criticism 1623613

Publisher Description:
Tacitus was Rome's greatest historian, and the Annals his greatest work. This book collects A.J. Woodman's writings on Tacitus over the past twenty-five years, focusing almost exclusively on the Annals. Woodman offers new or different interpretations of some of the most famous passages in the work, and argues that, through familiarity, generations of scholars have misread significant passages, thereby gaining and perpetuating a distorted view of what Tacitus had to say, especially about Tiberius. His iconoclastic insights will have major implications for those who wish to use the Annals as a source for what happened in the first century AD.