The Annals of Tacitus: Volume 1, Annals 1.1-54Cambridge University Press, 2004 - 380 pages The first in a four-volume edition of Tacitus Annals 1-6. The Annals are Tacitus' brilliant account of Roman imperial history from the death of Augustus to the death of Nero. Books 1-6 describe the reign of Tiberius. Professor Goodyear's introduction to the series deals concisely with the background to the Annals. He outlines the history of Tacitean scholarship to the present day and shows how Tacitus' historical judgements were sometimes distorted by his preoccupations with style and with the moral function of historical writing. The commentary attends equally to literary, historical and textual questions. There are several appendixes on topics of more specialized interest. |
Contents
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On certain terminology used to describe the language of Tacitus | 334 |
Some remarks on alliteration in Tacitus | 336 |
Tacitus variation and paraphrase of standard terms | 342 |
Certain aspects of ellipse in Tacitus | 346 |
LIST OF WORKS CITED | 351 |
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