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Tacitus and the Tacitean Tradition
By (Author) Torrey James Luce
Edited by Anthony John Woodman
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
European history
809.4
Hardback
226
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
482g
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