Tacitus Help (1 Viewer)

[nylon]

Hey, im still having some trouble writing my Tacitus essay if anyone can help me that would be great.

For example if the question is along the lines of,

"The personal identity and political and social context of the historian affects his/her interpretation of an historical issue of event"
Discuss this statement with reference to atleast TWO historians' interpretations of TWO areas of debate from your chosen case study.

How would you go about answering this?
Can you use Tacitus as one of your historians?

Like.. can the two areas you focus on be, how tacitus looks at Tyranny and the decline of Morality, and then the second be the Notion of the principate?
Then look at other historians, and show how when they look at Tacitus they can see that he is writing not a general history, but to show people his purpose? Example how when he writes about Tiberous he "actully" is talking about Domitian?

Any help would be appreciated

 

[launcher169]

yeah you can...i think you should look at their context more....then look at his writing as evidence for the ideas/theories you create concerning his context

like for my case study (JFK) if i got a question like that then i would go debate by debate...but then in each debate i would specifically say how each historians context has affected his interpretation on the specific debate

hope this helps

 

[randhi]

What i'm would do is write about the first historical debate, Tacitus' aim and context and then i'm gong to write about Tacitus characterisation of men and women.