Provincial soldiers and imperial instability in the histories of Tacitus /
Tacitus' narrative of 69 CE, the year of the four emperors, is famous for its description of a series of coups that sees one man after another crowned. Many scholars seem to read Tacitus as though he wrote only about the constricted world of imperial Rome and the machinations of emperors, court...
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Ann Arbor :
University of Chicago Press
2016.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.8262430 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction; Chapter 1. The Batavian Revolt I: The Risks of Reliance on Provincial Soldiers; Chapter 2. "Adhuc immotus": The Condition of Roman Dominion; Chapter 3. The Annalistic Structure of the Histories; Chapter 4. The Batavian Revolt II: Failures of Imagination; Chapter 5. "Chattorum quondam populus": Lessons of the Histories; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index Locorum; Index.