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Tacitus and the Principate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Extract

In the 1957 volume of Greece & Rome the Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford gave readers a preview of certain opinions subsequently developed in the two volumes of his study of Tacitus.

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1969

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