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Tacitus Reconsidered

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2017

Extract

Tacitus as an historian has long been critically revalued: as an artist, I think, he has been spared too much. To promote that further revaluation is the purpose of these notes.

It is curious that Tacitus had little reputation among later Romans. Pliny looked for his friend's immortality; but was this politeness or Plinian affectation? ‘The next generations showed faint interest in his writings.

Type
Research Article
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1932

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