Tacitus: I, Agricola. Germania. Dialogus (Loeb Classical Library)

Tacitus

ISBN 10: 0674990390 / ISBN 13: 9780674990395

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1914

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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.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: 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.

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Titel: Tacitus: I, Agricola. Germania. Dialogus (...
Verlag: Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1914
Einband: Hardcover
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