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  1. Becoming Tacitus: Significance and Inconsequentiality in the Prologue of Agricola.Dylan Sailor - 2004 - Classical Antiquity 23 (1):139-177.
    I argue that the prologue of Tacitus' Agricola is at pains to maintain for the work the option to be important or to be inconsequential. The goal of this effort is to anticipate a spectrum of possible receptions: if the work is welcomed by its audiences, it can serve as the first step in a prestigious literary career; if it meets with indifference or hostility, Tacitus' already-existing social self can find protection behind the claims to limited importance. In the first (...)
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