Oxford Readings in Tacitus

Rhiannon Ash is a Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Merton College, Oxford University. She has published widely on Tacitus and Roman Historiography and has particular interests in Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger about whom she has published a number of articles. She is currently writing a commentary on Tacitus Annals 15.

• PREFACE ; INTRODUCTION ; 1. An Island Nation: Re-Reading Tacitus Agricola ; 2. The Theme of Liberty in the Agricola of Tacitus ; 3. There s No Place Like Rome: Identity and Difference in the Germania of Tacitus ; 4. Praise and Doublespeak: Tacitus Dialogus ; 5. Appreciating Aper: The Defence of Modernity in Tacitus Dialogus de Oratoribus ; 6. The Agricola: Stepping-Stone to History ; 7. Critical Appreciations III: Tacitus, Histories 3.38-9 ; 8. Pity, Fear, and the Historical Audience: Tacitus on the Fall of Vitellius ; 9. Tacitus and the Death of Augustus ; 10. Obituaries in Tacitus ; 11. The Beginning of the Year ; 12. Tacitus and Germanicus ; 13. Nero s Alien Capital ; 14. Tacitus Conception of Historical Change ; 15. Development of Language and Style in the Annals of Tacitus ; 16. Tacitus Excursus on the Jews through the Ages: An Overview of its Reception History ; 17. Tacitus and the Tacitist Tradition ; 18. Tacitus Now ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; BIBLIOGRAPHY