Tacitus Annals XVI

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-02351-2 (ISBN)

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Book XVI of Tacitus' Annals is the last of the surviving books of the great Roman historian's monumental account of the reigns of the emperors from Tiberius to Nero. The unfinished book offers a stunning portrait of Nero in his last years, a man now free of the restraining influences of his mother Agrippina and tutor Seneca. Annals XVI presents such unforgettable scenes as the spectacle of Petronius' suicide, and the mad quest of Nero to find the gold of the Carthaginian queen Dido.

This edition provides a commentary to the entire book, with notes carefully aimed at first-time readers of Tacitus as well as more advanced students. An introduction provides a guide to what we know of Tacitus' life and work, as well as to the reign of Nero and Tacitus' depiction of an empire in transition, of a Rome teetering on the verge of chaos and collapse. A full vocabulary at the end of the volume is a vital resource for students preparing this text for class work or assessment.

Lee Fratantuono is Professor of Classics and William Francis Whitlock Professor of Latin at Ohio Wesleyan University, USA. His books include editions of Virgil, Aeneid 5 (2015), Ovid Metamorphoses X (Bloomsbury, 2014) and A Commentary on Virgil, Aeneid XI (2009).

List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Text
Commentary
Glossary
Further Reading and Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2017
Reihe/Serie	Latin Texts
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	270 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-02351-5 / 1350023515
ISBN-13	978-1-350-02351-2 / 9781350023512
Zustand	Neuware