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Author(s):	James McNamara

Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1350241725
Pages:	296	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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This volume approaches the broad topic of wonder in the works of Tacitus, encompassing paradox, the marvellous and the admirable. Recent scholarship on these themes in Roman literature has tended to focus on poetic genres, with comparatively little attention paid to historiography: Tacitus, whose own judgments on what is worthy of note have often differed in interesting ways from the preoccupations of his readers, is a fascinating focal point for this complementary perspective.

Scholarship on Tacitus has to date remained largely marked by a divide between the search for veracity  as validated by modern historiographical standards  and literary approaches, and as a result wonders have either been ignored as unfit for an account of history or have been deprived of their force by being interpreted as valid only within the text. While the modern ideal of historiographical objectivity tends to result in striving for consistent heuristic and methodological frameworks, works as varied as Tacitus'
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