The Annals of Tacitus. Books 5 and 6 / edited with a commentary by A.J. Woodman.
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 o...
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| Other title: | Annales. Liber 5-6. Latin (Woodman) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Cambridge classical texts and commentaries ;
55. |
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| Summary: | 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). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 325 pages) : illustration |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xv-xxi) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781316591406 1316591409 9781316757796 131675779X |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781316591406 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |