[publicclassics] ten Berge: Writing Imperial History: Tacitus from Agricola to Annales

[Bram Ten Berge]

Bram L. H. ten Berge

Writing Imperial History: Tacitus from *Agricola* to *Annales*

(University of Michigan Press)

   - 424 pages
   - Hardcover: 9780472133437 - 80 USD
   - Ebook (PDF or EPUB): 9780472221240 - 64.95 USD

https://press.umich.edu/Books/W/Writing-Imperial-History

The late first- and early second-century Roman senator and historian
Cornelius Tacitus, whom Edward Gibbon described as “the first of the
historians who applied the science of philosophy to the study of facts,”
shaped the development of the modern understanding of history as a crucial
vehicle for social analysis. The breadth of his thinking is fully revealed
only through analysis of how the political, geographical, and rhetorical
theories expounded in his early works influenced his later narrative of the
evolution of the Roman monarchy. Tacitus, who was one of the oratorical
luminaries of his time, produced a collection of works widely recognized as
offering the most authoritative account of Rome’s early imperial history.
His oeuvre traditionally is divided into the so-called minor and major
works. *Writing Imperial History* offers the first comprehensive analysis
of Tacitus’ five texts and their interconnections and serves to confront
longstanding assumptions that have led to a fundamental misunderstanding of
the nature and development of his oeuvre and historical thinking. Tracing
many of the enduring themes and concerns that Tacitus explores across his
works, the book shows how the vision articulated in his earlier texts
persists in his later ones and how he used the former as sources for the
latter.
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