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University Park, Penn. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; vi, 262 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-251) and index. Contents; 1. Sententious Worlds and Character Types -- 2. Sententiae and Their Audience -- 3. The Sententious Princeps -- 4. A Sententious Society -- 5. The Sententious Historian, Master of All He Surveys. Subjects; Tacitus, Cornelius Technique. Literature and society Rome. Aphorisms and apothegms. Rhetoric, Ancient. Maxims, Latin History and criticism.
Tacitus the Sententious Historian. A Sociology of Rhetoric in Annales 1-6. by Sinclair, Patrick, 1955- . Tacitus
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University Park, Penn State, 1995. Hard Cover. viii, 262 p., 23.5 cm. 'A study of Greek and Latin rhetorical culture centering on the Roman historian Tacitus and his use of aphorisms and maxims know as sententiae.' 38850. Fine/ dj fine.
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