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A dramatic detective story.

It is an extraordinary tale, and [Krebs]...tells it with great verve and charm...Entrancing. -- Ferdinand Mount - Wall Street Journal Tacitus's ghost, and the ghosts of those martyred in supposed obedience to his theories, still haunt us, as they should. Warm thanks to Christopher Krebs for feeding them the blood that has enabled them to speak. -- Anthony Grafton - London Review of Books Fascinating...[Krebs] lays out the recovery, of Germania, in 1455, like a detective story...He has a light touch and a dry sense of humor. -- Cullen Murphy - New York Times Book Review Clever, learned...[Krebs] synthesizes a great deal of classical scholarship and intellectual history into a concise, accessible story. -- Adam Kirsch - Slate

...a fascinating perspective... THE ...the research is deep and the material impressively controlled and narrated. Krebs writes with panache, a vocabulary which puts many native speakers of English to shame... Christopher Whitton, Times Literary Supplement Krebs tells this dramatic detective story...very deftly. London Review of Books ...delicious study... Ferdinand Mount, TLS Books of the Year 2011 ...a most informative book and a most entertaining one. Minerva

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Christopher B. Krebs, a classics professor at Harvard University, has published widely on the Roman historians and their afterlives. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

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