The Annals of Tacitus: Book 4

A J Woodman editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:8th Feb '24

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Full edition and discussion of Tacitus' vivid account of the pivotal years of the emperor Tiberius.

A full edition of Book 4 of Tacitus' Annals, which covers the years AD 23–28 when, under the influence of his henchman Sejanus, the emperor Tiberius famously changed for the worse and withdrew to the island of Capri.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).

"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

ISBN: 9781108411479

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 460g

371 pages