| Tacitus Reviewed Contributor(s): Woodman, A. J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198152582 ISBN-13: 9780198152583 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $266.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1998 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Rome - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical |
| Dewey: 937.07 |
| LCCN: 98027415 |
| Lexile Measure: 1700 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.08 lbs) 268 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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. |