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Tacitus and the Tacitean Tradition
(Paperback)
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Tacitus and the Tacitean Tradition
Contributors:
By (Author) Torrey James Luce
Edited by Anthony John Woodman
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
European history
Dewey:
809.4
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
226
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
312g
Description
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
