The Annals of Tacitus
Author | : Tacitus |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-12-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781316757314 |
ISBN-13 | : 1316757315 |
Rating | : 4/5 (315 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Annals of Tacitus written by Tacitus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).