Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.33.4, pp. 2928-2948
 
The Historical Process and Theories of History in the 'Annals' and Histories' of Tacitus
by Harold Y. Mcculloch, Jr., Princeton, N. J.

Contents

I. History and Discourse: Tacitus as a Revisionist

2928

II. Tacitus and Cremutius Cordus

2931
III. The Baseness of Human Motives 2933

IV. Tacitus' Inductive Reasoning

2936

V. History and Metaphysical Principles: The Complexity of Historical Causation

2938

VI. Charges of "Misrepresenting the Facts"

2941

VII. Modern Historiographical Theories and their Application to Tacitus

2944

VIII. Tacitus the Dissimulator: Historical Order Undermined by Verbal Inconcinnity

2946

IX. Tacitus and Irony

2947
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