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  title info:
    title: History after liberty
    sub title: Tacitus on tyrants, sycophants, and republicans
  name:
    name part: Strunk, Thomas.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 221 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: Roman historian Tacitus wrote a damning critique of the first century CE Roman empire. The emperors in Tacitus' works are almost universally tyrants surrounded by flatterers and informants, and the image Tacitus creates is of a society that has lost the liberty enjoyed under the Roman Republic. Yet Tacitus also poignantly depicts those who resist this tyranny and seek to restore a sense of liberty to Rome. In his portrayal of autocrats, sycophants, and republicans Tacitus provides an enduring testament to the value of liberty and the evils of despotism. The book explores Tacitus' political thought through his understanding of liberty. Influenced by modern republican writers such as Quentin Skinner and Philip Pettit, this study defines Tacitean libertas as the freedom from the rule of a dominus and as freedom to participate in the traditional politics of Rome through military service, public service in the senate and magistracies, and public speech. All of these elements are balanced in Tacitus' writings with examples of those resisting the corruption of politics in an effort to restore a sense of free civic engagement. The work concludes with an exploration of Tacitus' own writings as an act of restoring liberty. In contrast to most studies on Tacitus, History after Liberty argues that Tacitus is a republican who writes both to demonstrate that Rome had become a tyranny and to show a way out of that tyranny. History after Liberty addresses the political thought of Tacitus' writings.
  note: Thomas E. Strunk.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Tacitus, Cornelius
    topic: Political and social views
  subject:
    topic: Republicanism
  subject:
    topic: Despotism
  subject:
    topic: Liberty
  subject:
    geographic: Rome
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 30 B.C.-284 A.D
  classification: PA6716 .S77 2017
  classification: 480
  identifier: 9780472130207
  identifier: 047213020X
  record info:
    record content source: ERASA
    record creation date: 170317
    record change date: 20181023093400.0
    record identifier: in00004022706
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng