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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 January 2017
      08 December 2016
      ISBN:
      9781316591406
      9781107152700
      9781316606650
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316591406
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 348 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 348 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Literature
      Collection:
      Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
      Series:
      Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries (55)
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Literature
    Collection:
    Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
    Series:
    Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries (55)
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    Books 5 and 6 of Tacitus' Annals cover the last years of the emperor Tiberius. Although most of Book 5 is lost, Book 6 survives complete and offers a vivid narrative of the increasingly tyrannical princeps, secluded on the island of Capri; the book ends with his death and obituary notice, one of the most celebrated passages of classical literature. This volume presents a new text of Books 5 and 6, restoring the division between them which was proposed by Lipsius, as well as a full commentary on the text, covering textual, literary, linguistic and historical matters. An Appendix discusses 'The Tacitean Tiberius'. The volume rounds off the sequence which began with commentary on Books 1 and 2 of Tacitus' Annals by F. R. D. Goodyear (1972, 1981) and was continued by commentary on Book 3 by A. J. Woodman and R. H. Martin (1996).

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    'In short, this commentary is a reflection of the authoritative work of Woodman as well as his predecessors. … In this commentary, Woodman has brought Goodyear’s (and Martin’s) work to an admirable conclusion.'

    Rebecca Edwards Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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