A. J. Woodman is Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. He has written widely on Roman history, especially Tacitus, and co-edited, with R. H. Martin, Annals III and IV (1996 and 1989 respectively). He is currently preparing an edition of Agricola with Christine S. Kraus.
Introduction A. J. Woodman
Contexts: 1. From the Annalists to the Annales: Latin historiography before Tacitus A. M. Gowing
2. Tacitus and the contemporary scene A. J. Woodman
Texts: 3. The Agricola A. R. Birley
4. The Germania as literary text Richard F. Thomas
5. The faces of eloquence: the Dialogus de Oratoribus Sander M. Goldberg
6. Fission and fusion: shifting Roman identities in the Histories Rhiannon Ash
7. The Tiberian Hexad Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
8. Hamlet without the Prince? The Claudian Annals S. J. V. Malloch
9. 'Is dying so very terrible?': the Neronian Annals E. E. Keitel
Topics: 10. Tacitus' personal voice Christopher Pelling
11. Tacitus as a historian Miriam T. Griffin
12. Res Olim Dissociabiles: emperors, senators, and liberty S. P. Oakley
13. Style and language S. P. Oakley
14. Speeches in the Histories D. S. Levene
15. Warfare in the Annals D. S. Levene
Transmission: 16. From manuscript to print R. H. Martin
17. Tacitus and political thought in early modern Europe, c.1530-c.1640 Alexandra Gajda
18. Gibbon and Tacitus Paul Cartledge
19. A dangerous book: the reception of the Germania C. B. Krebs
20. Tacitus and the twentieth-century novel Martha Malamud
21. Tacitus' Syme Mark Toher
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