Damon, Cynthia2023-05-222023-05-222010-01-012016-02-11Damon, C. (2010). The historian's presence, or, there and back again. In C. S. Kraus, J. Marincola, & C. Pelling (Eds.), Ancient historiography and its contexts: Studies in honour of A. J. Woodman (pp. 353-363). Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199558681.001.0001https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/8091This chapter is an investigation of a Tacitean metaphor for historiography and its implications for the historian's role in history. The metaphor of the historian's physical proximity to his subject matter, which is found in the Annals 4 digression contrasting Tacitus's work with that of historians of earlier periods, is an offshoot of the enargeia that often enlivens a narrative. It is also one of the many connections between this digression and both Tacitus's account of the trial of the historian Cremutius Cordus (4.34-35) and what he suggests about his own work as historian.This material was originally published in Ancient Historiography and its Contexts: Studies in Honour of A. J. Woodman by / edited by Christina S. Kraus, John Marincola, and Christopher Pelling, and has been reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199558681.001.0001/acprof-9780199558681. For permission to reuse this material, please visit http://global.oup.com/academic/rights.TacitusAnnalsdigressionenargeiaCremutius CordusArts and HumanitiesClassicsBook Chapter