The Annals of Tacitus: Book 11
Seiten
2020
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-82016-5 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-82016-5 (ISBN)
This edition of Annals 11, the first scholarly edition in English in over a hundred years, contains a full and detailed introduction, a newly established Latin text with apparatus, and a comprehensive commentary that illuminates historical, historiographical, textual, linguistic and literary issues that arise from the narrative.
Book 11, the first of the later books of the Annals to survive, narrates two years in the reign of Claudius, AD 47–8. While Claudius is busy with the duties of his censorship, his wife Messalina is having a very public love affair with the young aristocrat Silius that eventually ruins her. In a book that also treats German, eastern, and other Roman internal affairs, a third of the surviving narrative is devoted to the destruction of Messalina. Here we encounter the classic portrayal of a Claudius ignorant and manipulated by those around him in an extended narrative that shows Tacitus at his dramatic and cynical best. This edition of Book 11, the first scholarly one in English in over a hundred years, contains a full introduction, a newly-edited Latin text with apparatus, and a comprehensive commentary that illuminates historical, historiographical, textual, linguistic, and literary issues that arise from the narrative.
Book 11, the first of the later books of the Annals to survive, narrates two years in the reign of Claudius, AD 47–8. While Claudius is busy with the duties of his censorship, his wife Messalina is having a very public love affair with the young aristocrat Silius that eventually ruins her. In a book that also treats German, eastern, and other Roman internal affairs, a third of the surviving narrative is devoted to the destruction of Messalina. Here we encounter the classic portrayal of a Claudius ignorant and manipulated by those around him in an extended narrative that shows Tacitus at his dramatic and cynical best. This edition of Book 11, the first scholarly one in English in over a hundred years, contains a full introduction, a newly-edited Latin text with apparatus, and a comprehensive commentary that illuminates historical, historiographical, textual, linguistic, and literary issues that arise from the narrative.
S. J. V. Malloch is Lecturer in Roman History at the Department of Classics, University of Nottingham.
Introduction; Text; Commentary.
Erscheinungsdatum | 21.05.2020 |
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Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries |
Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises; 1 Tables, black and white |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 215 mm |
Gewicht | 700 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-108-82016-6 / 1108820166 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-82016-5 / 9781108820165 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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