The Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus

Salvador Bartera, University of Tennessee, Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson, University of Cincinnati

Salvador Bartera is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He holds a PhD from the University of Virginia. His main research interests focus on Roman historiography, particularly Tacitus. He is also interested in classical reception in the Renaissance. His main publications include articles on the Annals, the concept of fides in the Histories, the history of the commentary tradition of Tacitus, his first Italian translations and Tacitist commentators, and the neo-Latin Jesuit poet Stefonio. He is currently completing a commentary on Annals 16 and preparing an edition of Stefonio’s Flavia Tragoedia.

Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Classics from the University of Virginia, and an MSt and DPhil in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature from the University of Oxford. She is the author of Religion and Memory in Tacitus’ Annals (OUP, 2019), a commentary on Phlegon of Tralles’ On Marvels (Brill, 2022), and various articles on aspects of Greek and Roman historiography, religion, and paradoxography.