The Annals of Tacitus

Books 5-6
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-107-15270-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 55, 343 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

Reihe: Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries

Books 5 and 6 of Tacitus' Annals cover the last years of the emperor Tiberius. Although most of Book 5 is lost, Book 6 survives complete and offers a vivid narrative of the increasingly tyrannical princeps, secluded on the island of Capri; the book ends with his death and obituary notice, one of the most celebrated passages of classical literature. The volume presents a new text of Books 5 and 6, restoring the division between them which was proposed by Lipsius, as well as a full commentary on the text, covering textual, literary, linguistic and historical matters. An Appendix discusses 'The Tacitean Tiberius'. The volume rounds off the sequence which began with commentary on Books 1 and 2 of Tacitus' Annals by F. R. D. Goodyear (1972, 1981) and was continued by commentary on Book 3 by A. J. Woodman and R. H. Martin (1996).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tacitus

Woodman, A. J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; References and abbreviations; Introduction; Text; Commentary; Appendix: the Tacitean Tiberius; Indexes.

Über Autor(innen)

Woodman, A. J.
A. J. Woodman is Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia.