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Writing and empire in Tacitus / Dylan Sailor

Author
Sailor, Dylan
Published
Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 359 pages)
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Contents
Autonomy, authority, and representing the past under the principate -- Agricola and the crisis of representation -- The burdens of histories -- "Elsewhere than Rome" -- Tacitus and Cremutius.
Summary
Writing and Empire in Tacitus examines how Tacitus' historiographical career serves as an argument about his personal autonomy and social value under the peculiar political conditions of the early Roman Empire. Following the arc of his career from Agricola through Histories to Annals, this book focuses on ways in which Tacitus' writing makes implicit claims about his relationship to Roman society and about the political consequentiality of historical writing. In a sense, this book suggests, his literary career and the sense of alienation his works project form the ideal complement to his very successful political career, which, while desirable, might nonetheless give the impression of degrading submission to emperors. The discussion combines careful attention to the historian's explicit programmatic discussion of his work with larger-scale analysis of stretches of narrative that have unspoken but significant implications for how we view the function and importance of Tacitus' work.
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ISBN
0511438028 (electronic bk.)
9780511438028 (electronic bk.)
9780511438691 (electronic bk.)
0511438699 (electronic bk.)
0511435770
9780511435775
9780511482366 (ebook)
0511482361 (ebook)
9780511437359
0511437358
0521897475 (Cloth)
9780521897471 (hardback)
9780521297141 (paperback)
0521297141
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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