Search Results: tacitus the sententious historian a sociology by sinclair patrick 1955

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.