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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editions of Tacitus's Works

Vita Agricolae, ed. Ogilvie & Richmond, (Oxford 1967).
Dialogus de oratoribus, ed. C.E. Bennett (Boston 1894).
Gudeman, A., Dialogus de Oratoribus, (Berlin 1914).
Güngerich, R., Kommentar zum Dialogus des Tacitus, ed. H. Heubner, (Göttigen 1980).
Chilver, G. E. F., A Historical Commentary on Tacitus' Historiae I and II, (Oxford 1979).
________. A Historical Commentary on Tacitus' Historiae IV and V, (Oxford 1985).
Furneaux, Tacitus's Annales, vol. I, (Oxford 1894).
________. Tacitus's Annales, vol. II, (Oxford 1894).

The Dialogus de oratoribus

Alföldy, A. and Halfman, H., "M. Cornelius Nigrinus Curiatius Maternus, General Domitians und Rivale Trajans," Chiron 3 (1973) 331-75.
Alfonsi, L., "Dall'Hortensius al Dialogus de oratoribus," Latomus 24 (1965) 40-44.
André, J.-M., "Tacite et la Philosophie," ANRW 2.33.4 (1991) 3101-3154.
Bardon, H., "Dialogue des orateurs et Institution oratoire," REL (1941) 113-31.
________. "Tacite et le Dialogue des Orateurs," Latomus 12 (1953) 166-87.
________. "Tacite et le Dialogue des Orateurs. Les critères grammaticaux et stylistiques," Latomus 12 (1953) 485-94.
Barnes, T. D., "The Significance of Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus," HSCP 90 (1986) 225-44.
________. "Curiatius Maternus," Hermes 109 (1981) 382-84.
Barwick, K., "Zur Erklärung und Komposition des Rednersdialogs des Tacitus," in Festschrift W. Judeich (Weimar 1929) 81-108.
________. "Der Dialogus de oratoribus des Tacitus. Motive und Zeit seiner Entstehung," Ber. Verkhandl Akad. Wiss. Leipzig, Phil.-hist. Kl. CI, 4 Berlin Akad.-Verl. 1954.
Beaujeu, J., "Pline le Jeune 1955-1960," Lustrum 6 (1961) 272-303.
Bellmore, J. and Rawson, B. M., "Alumni: The Italian Evidence," ZPE 83 (1990) 1-19.
Benario, Herbert, An Introduction to Tacitus, (Athens GA 1975).
Bo, D., "Avvaloramento del codice Vindobonense 2960 in relazione al Dialogus de oratoribus di Tacit," AAT 110 (1976) 89 ff.
________. "Il codice Leidense Perizoniano XVIII Q. 21 in relazione al Dialogus de oratoribus", RIL 110 (1976) 16-40.
________. "La Lacuna del Dialogus de oratoribus di Tacito," Prometheus 2 (1976) 124-44.
Borzsak, "Le Dialogus de Tacit et le Brute de Cicero," BAGB 3 (1985) 289-298.
Bringmann, K., "Aufbau und Absicht des Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus," MH 27 (1970) 164-78.
Brink, C. O., "Quintilian's De causis corruptae eloquentiae and Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus," CQ 39 (1989) 472-503.
________. "History in the 'Dialogus de oratoribus' and Tacitus the Historian. A New Approach to an Old Source," Hermes 121 (1993) 335-349.
Bruére, R. T., "Tacitus and Pliny's Panegyricus," CP 49 (1954) 161-79.
Brugnoli, G., "Il Dialogus e Giovenale," RCCM 10 (1968) 252-259.
Cameron, Alan, "Tacitus and the Date of Curiatus Maternus' Death," CR 17 (1967) 258-61.
Christes, J., "Tacitus' Dialogus, 5, 4. Eine neuer Heilungwersuch," Hermes 107 (1979) 371-79.
Desideri, P., "Lettura storica del Dialogus de oratoribus," Scritti Treves 83.
Deuse, W., "Zur advocatus-diaboli - Funktion Aper's," GB 3 (1975) 51-69.
Dienel, R., "Quintilian und der Rednersdialog des Tacitus," WS 37 (1915) 237-71.
Döpp, S., "Die Nachwirkungen von Cicero's rhetorischen Schriften bei Quintilian und in Tacitus' Dialogus. Eine typologische Skizze," Reflexion antiker Kulturen, 7-26.
Egermann, F., "Der Dialogus des Tacitus und Platons Gorgias," Hermes 63 (1935) 424-430.
Frank, Tenney, "Curiatius Maternus and His Tragedies," AJP 58 (1937) 225-229.
Von Fritz, K., "Aufbau und Absicht des Dialogus de oratoribus," RhM (1932) 275-300.
Frot, J., "Tacite est-il l'autuer du Dialogus des orateurs?", REL 33 (1955) 120-129.
Gagliardi, D., "Dialogus de oratoribus 10, 4. Ancora a proposito del concitto di eloquentia," Helikon 11-12 (1971-72) 444-447.
Gillis, D., "The Speaker of 36-40, 1 in the Dialogus," Latomus 31 (1972) 512-18.
Grimal, P., "Le Dialogus des orators témoin de son temps," Studia Kajanto 33.
Gugel, H., "Nochmals die grosse Lücke im Dialogus," SO 41 (1966) 115-22.
________. "Die Urbanität in Rednerdialog des Tacitus," SO 42 (1967) 127-40.
________. Untersuchungen zu Stil und Aufbau des Rednerdialogs des Tacitus, Diss. Graz 1964 comm. Aenipontanae XX Innsbruck, Wagner 1969.
Güngerich, R., "Der Dialogus des Tacitus und Quintilans' Institutio Oratoria," CP 46 (1951) 159-164.
________. "Tacitus' Dialogus und der Panegyricus des Plinius," Festschrift Bruno Snell (1956) 145-52.
Häussler, R., "Nur eine Kleine Lücke im Dialogus," Hermes 91 (1963) 382-83.
________. "Zum Umfang und Aufbau des Dialogus de oratoribus," Philologus 113 (1969) 24-67.
________. "Aktuelle Probleme der Dialogus-Rezeption. Echtheitserweise und Lückenumfang. Eine Zwischenbilanz," Philologus 130 (1986) 69-95.
Haß-von Retzenstein, U., Beiträge zur gutteringsgeschichtlichen Interpretation des Dialogus, Dissertation (Köln 1970).
Heilmann, Willbald, "'Goldene Zeit' und geschichtliche Zeit: Dialogus de oratoribus Zur Geschichtsauffasung des Tacitus", Gymnasium 96 (1989) 385-405.
Heldmann, K., "Dekadenz und literarischer Fortschritt bei Quintilian und bei Tacitus," Poetica 12 (1980) 1-12.
Hermann, L., "Quintilian et le Dialogus des orateurs," Latomus 14 (1955) 349-69.
________. "Encore le Dialogue des Orateurs et Quintilian," Latomus 24 (1965) 845-57.
Kappelmacher, A., "Zur Abfassungszeit von Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus," WS 50 (1932) 121-129.
Koenen, L., "Eine Berechnung der Regierungsjahre des Augustus von Tode Caesars. Zur datierung der Gesprächssituation von Tacitus' Dialogus (17, 3)," ZPE 13 (1974) 228-34.
Köstermann, E., "Der Taciteische Dialogus und Ciceros Schrift De Republica," Hermes 58 (1930) 396-421.
Koutroubas, Dimitrios E., "Cicero in Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus," 3e Congr. grec d'études latines, 123.
Kragelund, Patrick, "Vatinius, Nero and Curiatus Maternus," CQ 37 (1987) 197-202.
Landi, C., "L'autore del Dialogus de oratoribus," Atheneum 17 (1929) 489-513.
Leeman, A. D., "Ad Taciti Dialogum," Mnemosyne 6 (1955) 231.
________. "De initio c. 41 Dialogi de oratoribus," Memnosyne 9 (1956) 41-45.
Letta, C., "La data fittizia del Dialogus de oratibus," Scritti Treves 103.
Luce, T. J., "Reading and Response in the Dialogus," in Tacitus and the Tacitean Tradition, ed. T. J. Luce and A. J. Woodman, (Princeton 1992).
Marchesi, C., "Ancora sull' autore del Dialogus de oratoribus," AIV 96, 2, 1936-7.
Matthiessen, K., "Der Dialogus des Tacitus und Cassius Dio 67, 12," AC 39 (1970) 1968-1977.
Mazzarino, A., "Brevissime sul Dialogus de orateurs," Helikon 1 (1961) 165-166 & 319-321.
________. "Brevissime sul Dialogus de oratoribus," Helikon 2 (1962) 271-74.
Merklin, Harald, "Dialogus 5, 4", Hermes 95 (1967) 500-504.
________. "Probleme des Dialogus de oratoribus: Mögligkeiten und Grenzen ihrer methodischen Lösung," AA 34 (1988) 170-189.
________. "'Dialogus'-Probleme in der neueren Forschung. Überlieferunsgeschichte, Echtheitsbeweis und Umfang der Lücke," ANRW 2.33.3 (1991) 2255-2283.
Michel, A., Le Dialogus des Orateurs de Tacite et la Philosophie de Cicero, (Paris 1962).
Murgia, C. E., "Loci Conclamati in the Minor works of Tacitus," CSCA 11 (1978) 159-78.
________. "Notes in the Dialogus of Tacitus," CP 74 (1979) 245-49.
________. "The Length of the Lacuna in Tacitus' Dialogus," CSCA 12 (1979) 221-40.
________. "The Date of Tacitus' Dialogus," HSCP 84 (1980) 99-125.
________. "A Tale of Two Manuscripts," CP 79 (1984) 145-53.
________. "Pliny's letters amd the Dialogus," HSCP 89 (1985) 171-206.
Murphy, John P., "Tacitus on the Education of the Orator," ANRW 2.33.3 (1991) 2284-2297.
Richter, W., "Zur Reconstruction des Dialogus de oratoribus," Nachr. der Akad. der Wiss. Göttigen 12 (1961) 387-425.
Romaniello, G., Il Dialogus de oratoribus nella sua definitiva soluzione della vexata quaestio, Roma ed. Ciranna 1968.
Romano, B., "Ancora sull' autore del Dialogus de oratoribus," A&R 11 (1930) 264-275.
Rudich, V., "Accomodations to Corrupt Reality. Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus," AW 11 (1985) 95-100.
Santini, P., "Terminologia retorica e critica del Dialogus de oratoribus," Accad. toscana di. Sc. e Lett. La Colombaria 33, Firenze Olschki 1968.
________. "Spunti di critica letteraria nel Dialogus," A&R 14 (1969) 4, 21-30.
Schakleton-Bailey, D. R., "Notes in Tacitus' Opuscula," CJ 77 (1982) 255-58.
Schuster, M., "Tacitus und der jüngere Plinius," WS 46 (1928) 234-240.
Sherwin-White, A. N., The Letters of Pliny, A Historical and Social Commentary, (Oxford 1966).
Shotter, D. A., "Tacitus' View of Emperors and the Principate," ANRW 2.33.5 (1991) 3263-3331.
Sinclair, Patrick, Tacitus the Sententious Historian. A Sociology of Rhetoric in Annales 1- 6, (Penn. State Univ. 1995).
Smallwood, E. Mary, "Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1, 5-21," Mnemosyne IV 15 (1962) 170-172.
Smiraglia, P., "Dialogus de oratoribus Cronologia e rapporti con l'insegnamento di Quintiliano," AFLN 5 (1955) 159-189.
Stahl, H. P., "The Death of Turnus: Augustan Virgil and the Political Revival," in Between Republic and Empire, Interpretations of Augustus and His Principate, ed. Kurt A. Raaflaub and Mark Toher, (Berkeley 1990).
Statius, Silvae IV, ed. K. M. Coleman, (Oxford 1988).
Steffen, W., "Annotationes ad Taciti Dialogus de oratoribus," Eos 64 (1976) 199.
Steinmetz, Peter, "Secundus in Dialogus de oratoribus des Tacitus," RhM 131 (1988) 342- 357.
Stok, F., "Le vicende dei codici hersfeldensi," MAL 28 (1984-86) 277-319.
Strand, J., "Notes on Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica," Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia 31 (1972).
G. Suetonius Tranquillus, De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus, ed. R. A. Kaster, (Oxford 1995).
Sullivan, J. P., Martial: the unexpected classic, (Cambridge 1991).
Syme, Sir Ronald, "The Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus," CQ 23 (1929) 129-137.
________. Tacitus, (Oxford, 1958).
________. "Livy and Augustus," HSPh 64 (1959) 27-76.
________. Sallust, (Berkeley 1964).
________. Ten Studies in Tacitus, (Oxford 1970).
________. Roman Papers, Vol. 2, ed. E. Badian, (Oxford 1979).
________. Roman Papers, Vol. 3, ed. A. R. Birley, (Oxford 1984).
________. Roman Papers, Vol. 5, ed. A. R. Birley, (Oxford 1988).
________. Roman Papers, Vol. 6, ed. A. R. Birley, (Oxford 1991).
________. Roman Papers, Vol. 7, ed. A. R. Birley, (Oxford 1991).
Szelest, H., "Domitian and Martial," Eos 62 (1974) 105-114.
Tacitus, De Vita Agricolae, ed. R. M. Ogilvie & I. Richmond, (Oxford, 1967).
Townend, G. B., "The Literary Substrata to Juvenal's Satires," JRS 63 (1973) 146-160.
Voss, B. R., "De Taciti Dialogi quadam cum Protagora Platonis similitudine," Memnosyne 26 (1973) 293-94.
Vretska, K., "Das Problem der Lücke und der Secundusrede in Dialogus de oratoribus," Emerita 23 (1955) 182-210.
Wagenvoort, H., "De Reguli in Taciti Dialogo partibus," Mnemosyne 54 (1926) 416-439.
Waltz, R., "Le rôle de Secundus dans le Dialogue des orateurs," RPh (1935) 296-301.
Waters, K. A., "Traianus Domitiani Continuator," AJP 90 (1969) 385-405.
________. "Juvenal and the Reign of Trajan," Antichthon 4 (1970) 62-77.
White, Peter, "The Presentation and Dedication of the Silvae and the Epigrams," JRS 64 (1974) 40-61.
________. "The Friends of Martial, Statius and Pliny, and the Dispersal of Patronage," HSCPh 79 (1975) 265-300.
________. "Amicitia and the Profession of Poetry in Early Imperial Rome," JRS 68 (1978) 74-92.
________. Promised Verse, (Cambridge 1993).
Williams, Gordon, Change and Decline, Roman Literature in the Early Empire, (Berkeley 1978).
Winterbottom, M., "Quintilian and the vir bonus," JRS 54 (1964) 90-7.
________. "The Transmission of Tacitus' Dialogus," Philologus 114 (1972) 114-128.
________. "Quintilian and Rhetoric," in Empire and Aftermath, ed. T. A. Dorey, (London 1975).
Ed. Woodman, T. and D. West, D., Poetry and Politics in the Age of Augustus, (Cambridge 1984).
Woodside, M. St. A., "Vespasian's Patronage of Education," TAPA 73 (1942) 123-129.
Zimmermann, R.C., "Tacitus' Gespräch über die Redner," BBG (1934) 236-247.

General Studies of Tacitus

Bowersock, Glen, "Tacitus and the Province of Asia," in Tacitus and the Tacitean Tradition, ed. by T. J. Luce and A. J. Woodman, ( Princeton 1992).
Brink, C. O., "Justus Lipsius and the Text of Tacitus," JRS 42 (1952) 32.

Works of Related Interest


Ahl, Frederick, "The Art of Safe Criticism in Greece and Rome," AJP 105 (1984) 174- 208.
Baldwin, Barry, "Rulers and Ruled at Rome: A.D. 14-192," Ancient Society 3 (1972) 149-163.
Bartsch, Shadi, Actors in the Audience, Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian, (Harvard 1994).
Bonner, Stanley, Education in Ancient Rome, (Berkeley 1977).
Caplan, H., "The Decay of Eloquence at Rome in the First Century," in Studies in Speech and Drama, (Ithaca 1944) 295-325.
Cizek, E., L'Epoque de Trajan, (Paris 1983).
Clarke, M. L., Rhetoric at Rome, (London 1953).
________. "Quintilian: A Biographical Sketch," GR II 14 (1967) 24-37.
Cloud, Duncan , "Emblem and Reality in Juvenal," in Patronage in Ancient Society, ed. A. Wallace-Hadrill, (London 1989).
Coffey, Michael, "Turnus and Juvenal," BICS 26 (1979) 88-94.
Coleman, K. M., "The Emperor Domitian and Literature," ANRW 2.32.5 (1986) 3087- 3115.
Courtney, E., A Commentary on the Satires of Juvenal, (London 1980).
Crook, J. A., Law and Life at Rome, (London 1967).
Daity, S.G., "Tacitus' Technique of Character Portrayal," AJP 81 (1960) 30-52.
D'Esperey, S. F., "Vespasien, Titus, et la littérature," ANRW 2.32.5 (1986) 3048-3086.
Dilke, O. A. W., "The Literary Output of the Roman Emperors," GR II 4 (1957) 78-97.
Fantham, E., "Imitation and Decline: Rhetorical Theory and Practice in the First Century After Christ," CP 73 (1978) 102-16.
________. "Imitation and Evolution: The Discusion of Rhetorical Imitation in Cicero De Oratore 2.87-97 and Some Related Problems of Ciceronian Theory," CP 73 (1978) 1-16.
Gamberini, F., Stylistic Theory and Practice in the Younger Pliny, (New York 1983).
Gérard, J., Juvénal et la Réalité Contemporaine, (Paris 1976).
Gilmartin, K., "The Evidence for Tacitus' Style," CJ 69 (1974) 216-222.
Gold, Barbara, Literary Patronage in Greece and Rome, (Chapell Hill 1987).
Guillemin, A. M., Pline et la Vie Littéraire de Son Temps, (Paris 1929).
Havas, Laslo, "Éléments du biologisme dans la conception historique de Tacite," ANRW 2.33.4 (1991) 1-12.
Janson, T., Latin Prose Prefaces, (Stockholm 1964).
Jones, Brian W., The Emperor Domitian, (London 1992).
Jones, C. P., "Julius Naso and Julius Secundus," HSCP 72 (1968) 279-88.
Kennedy, George, "An Estimate of Quintilian," AJP 83 (1962) 130-146.
________. Quintilian, (New York 1969).
________. The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World, (Princeton 1972).
________. A New History of Classical Rhetoric, (Princeton 1994).
Koehnken, A., "Das Problem der Ironie bei Tacitus," MH 30 (1973) 32-50.
Leeman, A. D., Orationis Ratio, (Amsterdam 1963).
MacMullen, Ramsey, Enemies of the Roman Order: Treason, Unrest, and Alienation in the Empire, (Cambridge 1966).
Martin, R. H., "The Speech of Curtius Montanus, Historiae 4, 42," JRS 57 (1967) 109-114.
________. Tacitus, (Berkeley 1981).
Morford, M., "How Tacitus Defined Liberty," ANRW 2.33.5 (1991) 3420-3450.
Oliver, R. P., "Tacitus Librarian?", CQ 29 (1979) 223-224.
Paratore, E., Tacito, (Rome 1951).
Pralle, L., "Die Wiederentdeckung des Tacitus," Quellen und Abhandlung zur Geschichte der Abtei und Diözese Fulda 17.
Reed, N., "Some Neglected Evidence on the Early Career of Tacitus," CQ 26 (1976) 309-314.
Saller, R. P., "Promotion and Patronage in Equestrian Careers," JRS 70 (1980) 44-59.
________. "Martial on Patronage and Literature", CQ 33 (1983) 246-257.

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