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      • Edited with Introduction and Notes by A. J. Woodman, University of Virginia
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      31 July 2018
      24 May 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108303682
      9781108419611
      9781108411479
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108303682
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 368 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 372 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Literature
      Collection:
      Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
      Series:
      Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries (58)
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Literature
    Collection:
    Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
    Series:
    Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries (58)
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    Book 4 of Tacitus' Annals, described by Sir Ronald Syme as 'the best that Tacitus ever wrote', covers the years AD 23–28, the pivotal period in the principate of the emperor Tiberius. Under the malign influence of Sejanus, the henchman who duped him and was loaded with honours, Tiberius withdrew to the island of Capri and was never again seen in Rome, where the treason trials engendered an atmosphere of terror. The volume presents a new text of Book 4, as well as a full commentary on the text, covering textual, literary, linguistic and historical matters. The introduction discusses the relationship between Tacitus and Sallust. The volume completes the sequence which began with commentary on Books 1 and 2 of the 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) and on Books 5-6 by A. J. Woodman (2016).

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    "A.J. Woodman's magnificent commentary on Book 4 is the capstone to his outstanding career as a scholar of Roman historiography, and especially of Tacitus, and it brings the scholarly coverage of these books on the reign of Tiberius to a triumphant conclusion." --Times Literary Supplement

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