In this volume distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore the work of Tacitus in its historical and literary context and also show how his text was interpreted in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Discussed here, for example, are the ways predilections of a particular age color one's reading of a complex author and why a reexamination of these influences is necessary to understand both the author and those who have interpreted him. All of the essays were first prepared for a colloquium on Tacitus held at Princeton University in March 1990. The resulting volume is dedicated to the memory of the great Tacitean scholar Sir Ronald Syme.
Author(s): Torrey James Luce, Anthony John Woodman (eds.)
Series: Magie Classical Publications
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 1993
Language: English
Pages: XVIII+206
INTRODUCTION / A. J. Woodman and T. J. Luce ix
RONALD SYME — A BRIEF TRIBUTE / G. W. Bowersock xiii
ABBREVIATIONS xvii
1. Tacitus and the Province of Asia / G. W. Bowersock 3
2. Reading and Response in the Dialogus / T. J. Luce 11
3. Speech and Narrative in "Histories" 4 / Elizabeth Keitel 39
4. Tacitus and Germanicus / Christopher Felling 59
5. "In maiores certamina": Past and Present in the "Annals" / Judith Ginsburg 86
6. Amateur Dramatics at the Court of Nero: "Annals" 15.48—74 / A. J. Woodman 104
7. Tacitean "Prudentia" and the Doctrines of Justus Lipsius / Mark Morford 129
8. "Tacitus Noster": The "Germania" in the Renaissance and Reformation / Donald R. Kelley 152
9. Politics, Taste, and National Identity: Some Uses of Tacitism in Eighteenth-Century Britain / Howard D. Weinbrot 168
BIBLIOGRAPHY 185
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 201
GENERAL INDEX 203
INDEX OF PASSAGES CITED 207
