Cornelius Tacitus

Woodman's translation masterfully conveys Tacitus' distinctive and powerful literary style and reflects the best of relevant current scholarship. His introduction provides a wealth of insight into the period about which Tacitus wrote, Tacitus himself, and the principles of translation that have shaped this rendering. Includes extensive notes; political, military, and geographical appendices; imperial family trees; suggested further readings; maps; and index.

The first book of Tacitus' Annals is concerned with the reign of Tiberius and with Roman campaigns in Germany. Norma Miller's useful edition, first published in the Methuen Classics series (1959), then by Bradda Books, by Blackwell and finally by BCP (1992), remains one of the best approaches for students making their first acquaintance with the work of Tacitus. The generously full introduction has sections on the author and his work and the content of Book I; most useful for the tiro are the sections on Tacitus' individualities of style and of syntax. There is full annotation, aimed straightforwardly at basic comprehension of the text, and a vocabulary.

This book remains the standard edition of the Dialogus, providing a comprehensive treatment of the problems of authorship, date, form and style. This volume is intended to meet the needs of students and scholars increasingly working on ancient rhetoric, as the Dialogus constitutes an important link between the rhetorical works of Cicero on the one hand and Quintilian's Institutio Oratoriae on the other.

This volume, aimed at the student of Latin at sixth form to undergraduate level, contains the Latin text of Tacitus' Annals Book XV, supplemented by a useful introduction and notes on the text.

This companion to the Penguin translation of Tacitus' book XIV provides commentary on an important period of Roman history, the years 59-62 AD when Nero was freed (mainly by murder) from the restraints imposed by Agrippina, Burrus and Octavia. The commentary pays special attention to Tacitus' use of stylistic devices to emphasis important events and traits of personality.

Kort før år 100 e. Kr. gjorde den romerske senatoren og litteraten Gaius Cornelius Tacitus ferdig et lite skrift, som tross det uanselige utgangspunktet har hatt sosiale og politiske ringvirkninger nesten uten sidestykke. Oldtidshistorikeren Arnaldo Momigliano hevdet at Tacitus' verk er blant de hundre farligste bøker som noen gang er skrevet. Tacitus skriver om germanernes skikker, historie og samfunn. Her får vi et portrett fra en urban romer av folkeslag som riktignok er barbarer, men ikke desto mindre edle og verdige, og ofte et eksempel til etterfølgelse. Nazistene trykket følgelig boken til sitt bryst. I denne boken har spesialist på norrøn filologi og norsk middelalderhistorie, og professor emeritus ved Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge, Claus Krag nyoversatt Germania, skrevet en fyldig innledning som setter verket i kontekst, og laget et omfattende kommentarapparat til glede for dagens lesere.