Dialogus de Oratoribus

Name: Dialogus de Oratoribus
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521469968
Price: 6100 KES
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ISBN: 9780521469968

by Tacitus

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

ISBN-10 0521469961

ISBN-13 9780521469968

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 28th, 2001

Print length 240 Pages

Weight 260 grams

Dimensions 18.00 x 12.50 x 0.80 cms

Product Classification: Latin BCE period – Protohistory Literary essays Essays Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: classical, early & medieval

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An edition of Tacitus' work on oratory, with a substantial introduction and commentary. The commentary is designed to elucidate problems of language and reference in the text and to put the reader in the picture as regards late first-century AD society and literature.

Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus is his most neglected work - there has not been an English-language commentary in over a century - and yet it is arguably his most original. Although among his earliest writings it shows complete mastery of the dialogue from and of Ciceronian idiom. It makes an original contribution to the continuing first-century AD debate about the role of oratory in Rome under the Principate, and raises the question of what a man can do to secure lasting renown. This edition contains a substantial introduction discussing such matters as the place of the work in the author's oeuvre, its style and layout. The commentary is designed to explain not only the language, and its subtle reformation of the Ciceronian idiom, but also the large issues mentioned about the decline of oratory, and the best career for a man to follow.

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