Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Preliminary Remarks: Background
• Tacitus and Verginius Rufus: Funeral and Ideology
• CHAPTER 1: Agricola: Enunciating Tacitean Concerns and Techniques
• CHAPTER 2: Germania: Reading Ethnography alongside Biography
• CHAPTER 3: Dialogus de Oratoribus: Rehabilitating the ‘Anomaly’
• CHAPTER 4: Historiae: Biography, Ethnography, and Dialogue as Sources for Historiographical Narrative
• CHAPTER 5: Annales: Finalizing an Integrated Project
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index Locorum

About the Author

Bram L. H. ten Berge is Assistant Professor of Classics at Hope College. He specializes in Roman history and historiography (especially Tacitus).

Reviews

“The author’s writing is clear and straightforward, and his knowledge of Tacitean scholarship is also impressive. Overall, the book is peppered with interesting insights. Ten Berge is a diligent and careful scholar.” —Eric Adler, University of Maryland