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ancient political thought
Ancient Rome
Author_Ronald Mellor
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classical historiography
Constitutional Trappings
Devious
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Flavian Dynasty
freedom and oppression
Good Emperors
Greatest Roman Historian
Henry Savile
history
Human Suffering
Intellectual Gifts
Li Villa
Literary Tactic
Moliere
moral psychology
Moral Torment
people
political morality in antiquity
political philosophy
Postumus Agrippa
praetorian
prefect
Richard III
roman
Roman Republic
Sir Henry Savile
Superb
tacitean
tacitus's
Tacitus's Histories
Tacitus’s Histories
Tiberian Characteristics
traditional
Traditional Roman Virtues
tyranny analysis
Under Seal
virtues
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138410985
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Aug 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The histories of Roman senator Cornelius Tacitus constitute the most influential examination of tyranny, political behavior and public morality from the classical age. For centuries these portraits of courageous martyrs to freedom, of paranoid tyrants, and of sycophantic flatteres and informers shaped modern political attitudes. Ronald Mellor provides a compelling analysis of the ideas of the greatest historian of evil in the western intellectual tradition. In Tacitus, Ronald Mellor passionately argues for reclaiming this ironic genius whose cynical world view is particularly well-suited to an analysis of the tyranny and brutality in our own century. Tacitus is presented as a moralist, psychologist, political analyst and literary artist. Tacitus' greatest impact has never been on historians. Rather, his political vision and dramatic images left their mark on painters, poets and thinkers.
Ronald Mellor is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published From Augustusto Nero: The First Emperors of Imperial Rome and TheWorship of the Goddess Roma in the Greek World.
