The Annals of Tacitus: Book 11 by Tacitus, S. J. V. Malloch - 9781108820165

Name: The Annals of Tacitus: Book 11 by Tacitus, S. J. V. Malloch - 9781108820165
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

The Annals of Tacitus: Book 11Author(s): Tacitus, S. J. V. Malloch\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108820165, 978-1108820165\nSynopsis\nBook 11, the first of the later books of the Annals to survive, narrates two years in the reign of Claudius, AD 478. While Claudius is busy with the duties of his censorship, his wife Messalina is having a very public love affair with the young aristocrat Silius that eventually ruins her. In a book that also treats German, eastern, and other Roman internal affairs, a third of the surviving narrative is devoted to the destruction of Messalina. Here we encounter the classic portrayal of a Claudius ignorant and manipulated by those around him in an extended narrative that shows Tacitus at his dramatic and cynical best. This edition of Book 11, the first scholarly one in English in over a hundred years, contains a full introduction, a newly-edited Latin text wit.