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History after liberty : Tacitus on tyrants, sycophants, and republicans /

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....

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Main Author:	Strunk, Thomas
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2017.
Subjects:	Tacitus, Cornelius > Political and social views. Republicanism. Despotism. Liberty. Rome > Politics and government > 30 B.C.-284 A.D.

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