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Writing and Empire in Tacitus examines how Tacitus' historiographical career serves as an argument about his personal autonomy and social value under the peculiar political conditions of the early Roman Empire. Following the arc of his career from Agricola through Histories to Annals, this book focuses on ways in which Tacitus' writing makes implicit claims about his relationship to Roman society and about the political consequentiality of historical writing. In a sense, this book suggests, his literary career and the sense of alienation his works project form the ideal complement to his very successful political career, which, while desirable, might nonetheless give the impression of degrading submission to emperors. The discussion combines careful attention to the historian's explicit programmatic discussion of his work with larger-scale analysis of stretches of narrative that have unspoken but significant implications for how we view the function and importance of Tacitus' work.

Tacitus, Cornelius. --- Rome --- Historiography. --- Tacite --- Tacitus, Caius Cornelius --- Tacitus, Cornelius --- Tacito --- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius --- Tacito, Caio Cornelio --- Tacitus, C. Cornelius --- Tacitus, Gaius Cornelius --- Tacitus, P. Cornelius --- Tat︠s︡it, Korneliĭ --- Taxituo --- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius. --- Tacitus --- Historiography --- Cornelius Tacitus, Gaius --- Tacite, --- טאקיטוס, קורנליוס --- Τακιτος --- Takitos --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Rome - Historiography --- Historiographie

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Die Werke des Tacitus prägen bis heute das Bild, das die Nachwelt über die frühe römische Kaiserzeit besitzt. Dieses Bild muss jedoch kritisch auf seinen Wahrheitsgehalt geprüft werden. Denn dem eigenen Grundsatz der unparteilichen Berichterstattung bleibt Tacitus bei genauerer Analyse seiner Darstellung häufig nicht treu. Oft unterschwellig vermittelt er bei scheinbarer Objektivität dem Leser seine rein subjektive Deutung der beschriebenen Vorgänge. Anhand der Tiberiusbücher der Annalen stellt das Buch exemplarisch die Techniken dieser Leserlenkung vor. Besonderes Augenmerk wird dabei auf die Charakterdarstellungen der handelnden Personen gelegt. Der zweite, umfangreichere Teil des Werkes widmet sich den Claudiusbüchern der Annalen , die nach Art eines interpretierenden Kommentars kapitelweise unter dem Aspekt der Insinuationskunst analysiert werden. Ein wichtiges Anliegen des Buches ist es, die zum Teil recht divergierenden und verstreuten Ergebnisse früherer Analysen vorzustellen, zusammenzuführen und zu erweitern.

History. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Tacitus, Cornelius --- Tacitus, Cornelius. --- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius --- Tacitus --- Tacite --- Tacitus, Caius Cornelius --- Tacito --- Tacito, Caio Cornelio --- Tacitus, C. Cornelius --- Tacitus, Gaius Cornelius --- Tacitus, P. Cornelius --- Tat︠s︡it, Korneliĭ --- Taxituo --- Technique. --- Rome --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- History --- Historiography. --- Cornelius Tacitus, Gaius --- Tacite, --- טאקיטוס, קורנליוס --- Τακιτος --- Takitos --- Annales. --- Annals. --- Claudius. --- Influencing Readers. --- Tacitus. --- Tiberius.

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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 representing the misreading of signifying systems - such as speech, gesture, writing, social structures and natural phenomena - Tacitus obliquely comments upon the perversion of Rome's republican structure in the new principate. Furthermore, this study argues that the distinctively obscure style of the Annals is used by Tacitus to draw his reader into the ambiguities and compromises of the political regime it represents. The strain on language and meaning both portrayed and enacted by the Annals in this way gives voice to a form of political protest to which the reader must respond in the course of interpreting the narrative.

Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Irony. --- Sarcasm --- Cynicism --- Rhetoric --- Satire --- Tragic, The --- Understatement --- Ancient rhetoric --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Tacitus, Cornelius --- Tacitus, Cornelius. --- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius --- Tacitus --- Tacite --- Tacitus, Caius Cornelius --- Tacito --- Tacito, Caio Cornelio --- Tacitus, C. Cornelius --- Tacitus, Gaius Cornelius --- Tacitus, P. Cornelius --- Tat︠s︡it, Korneliĭ --- Taxituo --- Technique. --- Rome --- Historiography. --- Cornelius Tacitus, Gaius --- Tacite, --- טאקיטוס, קורנליוס --- Τακιτος --- Takitos --- History --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Arts and Humanities --- Ironie (rhétorique) --- 30 av. J.-C.-68 (Julio-Claudiens )

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This radical study argues against the view that the historian's craft has remained largely unchanged since classical times. Includes detailed discussion of the work of Thucydides, Cicero, Sallust, Livy and Tacitus.

Classical Greek language --- Classical Latin language --- History as a science --- Antiquity --- Thucydide, --- La œguerre du Péloponèse --- --Historiographie latine --- --Ier s. av JC, --- Historiographie grecque --- --Ve s. av JC --- 729 --- --Ve s. av JC, --- History, Ancient. --- History, Ancient - Historiography. --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- History, Ancient --- Italy --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Ancient history --- Ancient world history --- World history --- Ancient rhetoric --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Historiography --- Rhetoric --- Livy --- Sallust, --- Thucydides --- Cicero, Marcus Tullius --- Tacitus, Cornelius --- Sallust --- Sallustius, C. Crispus --- Sallustius Crispus, C. --- Sallustius Crispus, Gaius --- Sallustius Crispus, Caius --- Salluste --- Salustio Crispo, Cayo --- Crisp, G. Sal·lusti, --- Crispus, C. Sallustius, --- Crispus Sallustius, C., --- Gaio Crispo Sallustio, --- Gayo Salustio Crispo, --- Krisp, Gaĭ Salli︠u︡stiĭ, --- Krispus, Gajus Salustiusz, --- Salli︠u︡stiĭ Krisp, Gaĭ, --- Salluste, --- Sal·lusti, --- Sal·lusti Crisp, G., --- Sallustio Crispo, Caio, --- Sallustio, Gaio Crispo, --- Sallustius, C. Crispus, --- Sallustius Crispus, C., --- Sallustius Crispus, Gaius, --- Salustio, --- Salustiusz Krispus, Gajus, --- סאלוסט, --- גאיוס סאלוסטיוס קריספוס --- Cornelius Tacitus, Gaius --- Tacite, --- Tacito --- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius --- Tacitus --- Tacite --- Tacito, Caio Cornelio --- Tacitus, C. Cornelius --- Tacitus, Caius Cornelius --- Tacitus, Gaius Cornelius --- Tacitus, P. Cornelius --- Tat︠s︡it, Korneliĭ --- Taxituo --- טאקיטוס, קורנליוס --- Τακιτος --- Takitos --- T︠S︡it︠s︡eron, Mark Tulliĭ --- Cyceron --- Cicéron --- Kikerōn --- Cicerón, M. Tulio --- Ḳiḳero --- Cicerone --- M. Tulli Ciceronis --- Cicéron, Marcus --- Cicerón, Marco Tulio --- Ḳiḳero, Marḳus Ṭulyus --- Tullius Cicero, Marcus --- Cicerone, M. T. --- Kikerōn, M. T. --- Cicerone, M. Tullio --- Cicero --- Cicero, M. T. --- Cyceron, Marek Tulliusz --- ציצרון, מארקוס טולליוס --- קיקרו, מארקוס טוליוס --- קיקרו, מרקוס טוליוס --- キケロ --- 西塞罗 --- Thucydide --- Thukydides --- Thoukudides --- Livius, Titus --- Livius Patavinus, Titus --- Titus Livius --- Tite-Live --- Livyus, Titus --- Liviĭ, Tit --- Liwiusz, Tytus --- Livio, Tito --- Livius, T. --- Livio --- ליוויוס, טיטוס --- Technique. --- Historiographie latine --- Ier s. av JC, 100-1 av JC --- Ve s. av JC, 500-401 av JC --- Thucydide, 470-395 av JC --- Tucidide --- Fukidid --- Tucídides --- Thoukydidēs --- תוקידידיס --- Θουκυδίδης --- Historiographie ancienne --- Rome --- Grèce --- Historiographie --- Historiography. --- Literary style.