Tacitus Loeb Classic Library 5 volume set

Tacitus, M. Hutton, W. Peterson (translators, Vol 1) Clifford H. Moore (translator vol 2 and 3), John Jackson (translator vol 3, 4, and 5) R.M. Ogilvie, E.H. Warmington, M. Winterbottom (revisers vol 1)

ISBN 10: 0674990390 / ISBN 13: 9780674990395

Edité par Harvard University Press, 2000

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16 mo, 17 cm x 11.5 cm, Volume 1: 357 pp., Volume 2: 479 pp., Volume 3: 643 pp., Volume 4: 421 pp., Volume 5: 423 pp. Volume 1 contains "Agricola, Germania, Dialogus" and has a LCL of 35, Volume 2 contains "Histories Books I-III" and has an LCL of 111, Volume 3 contains "Histories Books IV-V and Annals Books I-III" and has an LCL of 249, Volume 4 contains "Annals Books IV-VI, XI-XII" and has an LCL of 312, Volume 5 contains "Annals XIII- XVI" and has an LCL of 322. Volume 1 has some wrinkling at the top of the dust jacket spine and a small spot as well and a small fold crease on the back end paper. Volume 2 has shelf wear on the dust jacket. Volume 3 has wear on the dust jacket and some wrinkling at the top of the spine. The top of the spine of the book has a minor bump. Volume 4 has some shelf wear on the dust jacket along with a small rip on the top right corner. Volume 5 has a crease on the upper right corner of the front end paper. All five volumes contain Latin and English text along with a couple maps in each volume. Volume 1: Near fine, Volume 2: Fine, Volume 3: Fine, Volume 4: Fine, Volume 5: Near fine Volume 1: Near fine, Volume 2: Near fine, Volume 3: Very good, Volume 4: Very good, Volume 5: Fine.

N° de réf. du vendeur 91980

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Tacitus Loeb Classic Library 5 volume set
• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date de parution: 2000
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674990390
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674990395
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: Loeb Classical Library.
• État de l'article: Bon
• État de la jaquette: Bon
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Ancient History
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

The paramount historian of the early Roman empire.

Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was quaestor in 81 or 82, a senator under the Flavian emperors, and a praetor in 88. After four years' absence he experienced the terrors of Emperor Domitian's last years and turned to historical writing. He was a consul in 97. Close friend of the younger Pliny, with him he successfully prosecuted Marius Priscus.

Works: (i) Life and Character of Agricola, written in 97-98, specially interesting because of Agricola's career in Britain. (ii) Germania (98-99), an equally important description of the geography, anthropology, products, institutions, and social life and the tribes of the Germans as known to the Romans. (iii) Dialogue on Oratory (Dialogus), of unknown date; a lively conversation about the decline of oratory and education. (iv) Histories (probably issued in parts from 105 onwards), a great work originally consisting of at least twelve books covering the period AD 69-96, but only Books 1-4 and part of Book 5 survive, dealing in detail with the dramatic years 69-70. (v) Annals, Tacitus's other great work, originally covering the period AD 14-68 (Emperors Tiberius, Gaius, Claudius, Nero) and published between 115 and about 120. Of sixteen books at least, there survive Books 1-4 (covering the years 14-28); a bit of Book 5 and all Book 6 (31-37); part of Book 11 (from 47); Books 12-15 and part of Book 16 (to 66).

Tacitus is renowned for his development of a pregnant concise style, character study, and psychological analysis, and for the often terrible story which he brilliantly tells. As a historian of the early Roman empire he is paramount.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Tacitus is in five volumes.

À propos des auteurs

Maurice Hutton (1856-1940) was Professor of Classics and Principal of University College at the University of Toronto.

Sir William Peterson (1856-1921) was Professor of Classics and Principal of McGill University.

Robert Maxwell Ogilvie (1932-1981) was Professor of Humanity at the University of St Andrews.

E. H. Warmington was Professor of Classics at Birkbeck College, London, and General Editor of the Loeb Classical Library (1937-1974).

Michael Winterbottom is the Corpus Christi Professor of Latin Emeritus at Oxford University.