Les opera minora et le développement de l'historiographie tacitéenne

The corpus of Tacitus’ ‘minor’ works (the Agricola, Germania, and Dialogus) has not always received the same level of scholarly attention as has been devoted to the ‘major’ historical narratives (the Histories and Annals). The collection of essays in this volume sets out to resist such fragmentation by reintegrating the ‘minor’ and ‘major’ works conceptually and by analysing them together. In section one, contributors consider the corpus holistically and examine the ‘minor’ works broadly in relation to the subsequent historiographical works of Tacitus. In section two, specific questions and problems relating to individual works in Tacitus’ corpus are the focus of the articles. In section three, contributors return to the issue of continuity between the ‘minor’ and ‘major’ works, but this time consider more defined and distinctive issues. All the articles together examine from different angles how Tacitus’ narrative techniques, historical methods, and ideological stance evolve and develop from the start to the end of his vibrant literary career.