{"product_id":"tacitus-9780415910026","title":"Tacitus","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe histories of Roman senator Cornelius Tacitus constitute the most influential examination of tyranny  political behavior and public morality from the classical age. For centuries these portraits of courageous martyrs to freedom  of paranoid tyrants  and of sycophantic flatteres and informers shaped modern political attitudes. Ronald Mellor provides a compelling analysis of the ideas of the greatest historian of evil in the western intellectual tradition.  In Tacitus  Ronald Mellor passionately argues for reclaiming this ironic genius whose cynical world view is particularly well-suited to an analysis of the tyranny and brutality in our own century.  Tacitus is presented as a moralist  psychologist  political analyst and literary artist. Tacitus greatest impact has never been on historians. Rather  his political vision and dramatic images left their mark on painters  poets and thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652937211957,"sku":"ByrdShop_0415910021","price":38.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780415910026.jpg?v=1781853656","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/tacitus-9780415910026","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}