The Annals of Tacitus: Book 11

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Tacitus

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries

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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.

Author Biography:

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

Release date Australia

July 11th, 2013

Author

Tacitus

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Edited by S. J. V. Malloch

Illustrations

1 Tables, black and white

Pages

557

Series

Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries

Dimensions

148x222x30

ISBN-13

9781107011106

Product ID

20856672

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