The Annals of Tacitus: Book 3

Covers the period AD 20–22 and contains some of Tacitus' best known and important programmatic and reflective passages.

Tacitus (Author), A. J. Woodman (Edited by), R. H. Martin (Edited by)

9780521609463, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 August 2004

536 pages
21.7 x 14.1 x 3.1 cm, 0.681 kg

'One of the strengths of this excellent commentary, is the ease with which it shifts from observations about particular linguistic features of Tactitus' Latin to broader historical analysis …'. Journal of Roman Studies

Books 1 and 2 of Tacitus' Annals were edited and annotated in two earlier volumes of this series (1972 and 1981) by the late F. R. D. Goodyear. Now A. J. Woodman and R. H. Martin have added a third volume: Book 3 of the Annals. This book covers the years AD 20–22, including the aftermath of Germanicus' death and the trial of his alleged murderer Calpurnius Piso and contains some of Tacitus' most well known and important programmatic and reflective passages. In their commentary the editors are the first to attempt a systematic comparison of the documentary record provided by a recently discovered senatus consultum relating to Piso's trial with Tacitus' narrative of the same episode. More attention is given to literary matters than by Goodyear but textual, linguistic and historical issues are treated fully and new interpretations frequently offered.

Introduction
Text
Commentary
Indexes.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]