Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.33.4, pp. 2904-2927
 
Tacitus on "History's Highest Function": praecipuum munus annalium (Ann. 3.65)
by T. J. Luce, Princeton, N. J.

Contents

I. Introduction

2904

II. History as Commemoration

2907
III History as Deterrent 2911

IV. Tacitus' Readership

2914

V. Present and Posthumous Fame

2916

VI. Tiberius and Fame

2922

VII. Works Cited

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