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Paperback, Second edition
Published: 1st February 1998
Paperback, New edition
Published: 1st March 1998
Tacitus: Annals XIV
By (Author) Tacitus
Volume editor E.C. Woodcock
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bristol Classical Press
1st February 1998
Second edition
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
European history
Ancient history
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
937.07
Paperback
192
Width 149mm, Height 210mm, Spine 11mm
272g
This edition of the fourteenth book of Tacitus Annals remains one of the most thorough editions of any book of Tacitus for use by school adn undergraduate students. Its meticulous commentary and vocabulary are supplemented by over fifity pages of introduction, covering Tacitus himself, a succinct but comprehensive account of his sytle and syntax. It also contains sections on the main themes of the book: the deterioration of neros reign internally contrasted with the external successes of Domitus Corbulo in Armenia, and Suetonius Paulinus in Britain (the defeat of Boudicca). Also available: Tacitus, Annals I; and Tacitus, Annals XV, both edited by N. Miller Tacitus, Annals 14: A companion to the Penguin translation, edited by N. Miller Suetonius, Nero, edited by B.H. Warmington
E.C. Woodcock was chair of Latin and Professor of Greek at Durham University, UK.