Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-564) and index.

The textual transmission / Charles E. Murgia -- The Agricola / Dylan Sailor -- Germania / James B. Rives -- Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus : a socio-cultural history / Steven H. Rutledge -- The histories / Jonthan Master -- The annals / Herbert W. Benario -- Tacitus' sources / David Potter -- Tacitus and Roman historiography / Arthur Pomeroy -- The concentration of power and writing history : forms of historical persuasion in The histories (1.1-49) / Olivier Devillers -- Deliberative oratory in The annals and the Dialogus / Christopher S. van den Berg -- Tacitus' senatorial embassies of 69 CE / Kathryn Williams -- Deuotio, disease, and remedia in The histories / Rebecca Edwards -- Tacitus in the twenty-first century : the struggle for truth in Annals 1-6 / Barbara Levick -- Tacitus' history and mine / Holly Haynes -- Seneca in Tacitus / James Ker -- Annum quiete et otio transiit : Tacitus (Ag. 6.3) and Sallust on liberty, tyranny, and human dignity / Christopher B. Krebs -- "Let us tread our path together" : Tacitus and the Younger Pliny / Christopher Whitton -- Tacitus and epic / Timothy A. Joseph -- Silius italicus and Tacitus on the tragic hero : the case of Germanicus / Eleni Manolaraki and Antony Augoustakis -- Historian and satirist : Tacitus and Juvenal / Catherine Keane -- Masculinity and gender performance in Tacitus / Thomas Späth -- Women and domesticity / Kristina Milnor -- Postcolonial approaches to Tacitus / Nancy Shumate -- Tacitus and political thought / Daniel Kapust.