Tacitus: Annals Book XV

Helps students and instructors read and appreciate this extraordinary piece of historical writing about Nero's infamous reign as emperor.

Sommario

List of maps; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Tacitus; 2. The sources, historiography, and Nero; 3. Annals 15: structure and artistry; 4. Parthia and Armenia; 5. The perils of gloria: Corbulo and Seneca; 6. The Pisonian conspiracy; 7. Speeches, style, and language; 8. Manuscripts; Corneli Taciti Ab Excessv Divi Augusti Liber Qvintvsdecimvs; Commentary; Select bibliography; Indexes; 1. General index; 2. Latin words.

Info autore

Rhiannon Ash is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Merton College, University of Oxford. She has published widely on Tacitus and on Roman historiography, including a commentary on Tacitus' Histories II in the same series (Cambridge, 2007).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Rhiannon Ash, Tacitus, Cornelius Tacitus
• Con la collaborazione di: Rhiannon Ash (Editore), Ash Rhiannon (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781107009783
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00978-3
• Pagine: 382
• Serie: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; Cambridge Greek and Latin Clas; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient, classical and medieval texts