Tacitus
by
Tacitus
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
ISBN-10
0521470404
ISBN-13
9780521470407
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 28th, 2001
Print length
238 Pages
Weight
370 grams
Dimensions
13.50 x 21.00 x 2.10 cms
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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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