SOURCE: Woodman, A. J. “Introduction: The Literature of War.” In Tacitus Reviewed, pp. 1-20. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1998.
In the following excerpt, Woodman suggests that Tacitus is better read as a poet than a traditional historian.
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