The Annals of Tacitus

Book 11
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-82016-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 51, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 698 g

Reihe: Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tacitus

Malloch, S. J. V.

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Text; Commentary.

Über Autor(innen)

Tacitus
S. J. V. Malloch is Lecturer in Roman History at the Department of Classics, University of Nottingham.