The Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus presents eighteen chapters surveying individual works and books by Tacitus. Each chapter approaches a work or book as a unit, addressing important interpretive issues relevant to specific texts, giving readers a deeper appreciation of their nuances and features.
The Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus presents eighteen chapters surveying individual works and books by Tacitus. The chapters treat a range of interpretive issues, including Tacitus' language and style; historical issues; literary devices; and narrative patterns. Differing from other introductions to Tacitus that adopt a thematic approach to his oeuvre as a whole, this volume approaches each as a unit, from start to finish, addressing important interpretive issues relevant to specific texts, giving readers a deeper appreciation of their nuances and features. Presupposing no prior knowledge of the works or knowledge of Latin, these features make the volume an essential resource for those studying Tacitus in translation and the original language, for those in classical studies and in other disciplines, and for teachers and students, both those at the undergraduate level and those at the graduate level.
Salvador Bartera and Kelly Shannon- Henderson: Introduction
1: Sergio Audano: Agricola
2: Katherine Clarke: Germania
3: ChristopherĀ S. van den Berg: Dialogus De oratoribus
4: Cynthia Damon: Histories 1
5: Lydia Spielberg: Histories 2
6: S. P. Oakley: Histories 3
7: TimothyĀ A. Joseph: Histories 4
8: René Bloch: Histories 5
9: Victoria Emma Pagįn: Annals 1
10: Aske Damtoft Poulsen: Annals 2
11: Olivier Devillers: Annals 3
12: Bram ten Berge: Annals 4
13: KellyĀ E. Shannon-Henderson: Annals 5 and 6: The End of the Beginning
14: Caitlin Gillespie: Annals 11 and 12
15: AlainĀ M. Gowing: Annals 13: Mentors, Murder, Mother, and Mayhem
16: Christopher Whitton: Annals 14
17: Rhiannon Ash: Annals 15
18: Salvador Bartera: Annals 16
Salvador Bartera is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He holds a PhD from the University of Virginia. His main research interests focus on Roman historiography, particularly Tacitus. He is also interested in classical reception in the Renaissance. His main publications include articles on the Annals, the concept of fides in the Histories, the history of the commentary tradition of Tacitus, his first Italian translations and Tacitist commentators, and the neo-Latin Jesuit poet Stefonio. He is currently completing a commentary on Annals 16 and preparing an edition of Stefonio's Flavia Tragoedia.
Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati. She holds a bachelor's degree in Classics from the University of Virginia, and an MSt and DPhil in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature from the University of Oxford. She is the author of Religion and Memory in Tacitus' Annals (OUP, 2019), a commentary on Phlegon of Tralles' On Marvels (Brill, 2022), and various articles on aspects of Greek and Roman historiography, religion, and paradoxography.
