Dialogus de Oratoribus

Name: Dialogus de Oratoribus
Author: Tacitus Publius Cornelius

by Tacitus Publius Cornelius

Dialogue examining the decline of oratory and rhetorical education in Rome

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Tacitus Publius Cornelius

The greatest of Roman historians, Tacitus wrote the Annals and Histories covering the early imperial period with savage irony and psychological penetration. His portraits of Tiberius, Nero, and Domitian are unsurpassed character studies. His style—compressed, epigrammatic—influenced Machiavelli and Montaigne.

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