Date of Award
6-1927
Degree Type
Bachelors Essay
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
History
First Advisor
William M. Magee
Abstract
Few writers among the ancients have received more condemnation, more criticism, less whole-heart d praise than Tacitus and Livy, the two most eminent historians of antiquity. By far the greater part of modern criticism is unfavorable to them. Even those who profess to admire them apologize for their faults, excuse them, seek to explain them away, and then very generously admit that, when all has been taken into consideration, their histories are really very fine. But all critics, adverse and favorable alike, are forced to grant that these historians have succeeded in giving us the true picture of Rome, and that they have made us feel the spirit and the grandeur of Rome as they knew it.
Recommended Citation
Puerner, Marguerite Teresa, "The Conception of History in Tacitus and Livy" (1927). Bachelors’ Theses. 1169.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/1169
Comments
A Thesis submitted partially to fulfill the requirements for The Degree of Bachelor of Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.