Tacitus and the Incomplete

Panayiotis Christoforou is a Marshall Research Fellow at the Pharos Foundation, a Junior Research Fellow at New College, University of Oxford, and an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow at Technische Universität Dresden. Bram L. H. ten Berge is Associate Professor of Classics at Hope College. He is the author of Writing Imperial History: Tacitus from Agricola to Annales.

• About the ContributorsIntroductionPart 1. Fragmentary or Missing Portions: Reconstructing TacitusKelly Shannon-Henderson, “Completing Tacitus with Fragments: The Destruction of the Jewish Temple”Salvador Bartera, “Tacitus’ Titus”Bram ten Berge, “Tacitus’ Domitian and Imperial (Mis)Representation”David Potter, “Britannia in the Historiae and the Annales”Ellen O’Gorman, “Quem ad finem memorabimus? The End of the Neronian Annals”Part 2. Narrative Incompleteness: Purposeful and Suggestive Omission Holly Haynes, “The Tragic Incomplete: Historical Thought in Tacitus’ Style”Christopher Whitton, “Tacitus and Pliny on Vesuvius”Victoria Pagán, “Augustus in the Annals”Panayiotis Christoforou, “Relating at the Appropriate Time: Tacitus’ Caligula”Coda. Early Modern Attempts at Filling the GapRhiannon Ash, “Mind the Gap: Savile’s Bridge Between the End of Tacitus’ Annals and the Start of the Histories”EpilogueBibliographyIndex Locorum

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