Tacitus: Dialogus de Oratoribus

by Tacitus and Cornelius Tacitus

Book Overview

Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus is his most neglected work - there has not been an English-language commentary in over a century - and yet it is arguably his most original. Although among his earliest writings it shows complete mastery of the dialogue from and of Ciceronian idiom. It makes an original contribution to the continuing first-century AD debate about the role of oratory in Rome under the Principate, and raises the question of what a man...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521469961
• ISBN13: 9780521469968
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 7.3"