By Zoë M. Tan Abstract: Geography is a fundamental element of ancient ethnography, yet the account of the environment in Tacitus’ Germania is notably sparse. Standard elements of geographic description are absent, or…
By Rhiannon Ash Abstract: This chapter examines three conspicuous instances of historiographical synkrisis in Tacitus’ Histories (Histories 1.50.2–3; 2.38; 3.51) in which the republican civil wars are the lens through…
By C.S. Kraus and A.J. Woodman Abstract: In recent decades there has been a complete revolution in the way we read the historians of Greece and Rome. Their works have been shown to be quite different in nature from…
By Ellen O’Gorman Abstract: This 2000 book examines Tacitus’ Annals as an ironic portrayal of Julio-Claudian Rome, through close analysis of passages in which characters engage in interpretation and misreading. By…
By Joy Connolly Abstract: In his 1864 book La Cité antique, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges warned against glorifying ancient narratives of civil government in the fashion of revolutionaries like Robespierre and…