The Annals of Tacitus: Book 11
Tacitus author S J V Malloch editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:28th May '20
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A newly established Latin text and detailed commentary on a wide variety of philological and historical issues arising from the narrative.
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.
'… extremely useful and enlightening, with excellent introductions to the different episodes or scenes of book 11 … It deals with all matters that will help the reader reach a better understanding of the Tacitean text.' Antonio Ramírez de Verger, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
ISBN: 9781108820165
Dimensions: 215mm x 140mm x 35mm
Weight: 700g
560 pages