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Tacitus and the Incomplete.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Christoforou, Panayiotis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tacitus, Cornelius.
- Latin essays.
- Inscriptions, Latin.
- Local Subjects:
- Tacitus, Cornelius.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Widely regarded as ancient Rome's greatest historian, Tacitus has shaped much of early modern and modern thought on Rome and its emperors.Substantial portions of his major historical works Histories and Annals , however, have not survived, depriving us of his account of crucial episodes and developments in Rome's early imperial history.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- About the Contributors
- Introduction: A Fragmentary Tacitus | Panayiotis Christoforou and Bram L. H. ten Berge
- Part 1. Fragmentary or Missing Portions: Reconstructing Tacitus
- Completing Tacitus with Fragments: The Destruction of the Jewish Temple | Kelly Shannon-Henderson
- Tacitus' Titus | Salvador Bartera
- Tacitus' Domitian and Imperial (Mis)Representation | Bram L. H. ten Berge
- Britannia in the Histories and the Annals | David Potter
- Quem ad finem memorabimus? The End of Tacitus' Annals | Ellen O'Gorman
- Part 2. Narrative Incompleteness: Purposeful and Suggestive Omission
- The Tragic Incomplete: Historical Thought in Tacitus' Style | Holly Haynes
- Tacitus and Pliny on Vesuvius | Christopher Whitton
- Augustus in the Annals | Victoria Emma Pagán
- Relating at the Appropriate Time: Tacitus' Caligula | Panayiotis Christoforou
- Coda: Early Modern Attempts at Filling the Gap
- Mind the Gap: Savile's Bridge Between the End of Tacitus' Annals and the Start of the Histories | Rhiannon Ash
- Epilogue: The Future of the Incomplete | Panayiotis Christoforou and Bram L. H. ten Berge
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 0-472-22260-0
- OCLC:
- 1569749854
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