Tacitus Histories Book II 1st Edition by Tacitus ISBN 978-0521891356 0521891353
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ISBN 10: 0521891353
ISBN 13: 978-0521891356
Author: Tacitus
The Histories is the first historical work by Rome’s most accomplished and challenging historian, Tacitus. It narrates the brutal civil wars which broke out in AD 68–9 across the Roman Empire after the suicide of the last Julio-Claudian emperor, Nero. Book II covers the bloody finale of the war between two of those emperors, Otho and Vitellius, and the emerging challenge from the eventual victor, Vespasian. The progression of events, kaleidoscopic and gripping, unfolds over a broad geographical sweep and is presented by Tacitus with consummate artistry. This commentary on Histories Book II elucidates historical questions, clarifies Tacitus’ historiographical techniques and explains grammatical difficulties of the Latin for students. It also includes a Latin text, relevant maps, and a comprehensive introduction discussing historical, literary and stylistic questions.
Table of contents:
Maps
1 The Roman Empire
2 Italy
Introduction
1 Tacitus
2 Ancient historiography
3 QVO QVO SCELESTI RVITIS? Civil war and Roman identity
4 Histories 2
5 Dramatic personages
6 Style
7 Sentences and moralizing allusions
8 The sources
9 The parallel tradition
10 Pro-Flavian historiography
11 The text
THE HISTORY OF CORNELIUS TACITUS, BOOK TWO
Commentary
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