Tacitus, Works, 5 vol. / Loeb Classical Library

Loeb Classical Library 35/111/249/312/322, Tacitus, (Works). In five volumes. Translated by John Jackson, M. Hutton, C. H. Moore ...

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  • Condition / Etat: very good, dust jacket with minor shelf wear / très bon état, minimes traces d'usures.
  • Volumes : 3 volumes.
  • Illustrations :  9 folded maps, 9 cartes dépliantes.
  • Binding / Reliure : original red titled cloth with fine dust jacket, cartonné avec jaquette.
  • Format : In-16 / 17 x 11 cm.
  • Pages : about 2000 pp.
  • Editor : Cambridge, Harvard University Press / London, Heinemann.
  • Date : 1980 - 1992.
  • Language / Langue: Latin and English on opposite pages / Bilingue latin et anglais.

    Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in 55, 56, or 57 CE 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.
    Contains:

    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.

    Contains:
    Life and Character of Agricola, written in 97–98, specially interesting because of Agricola’s career in Britain.
    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.
    Dialogue on Oratory (Dialogus), of unknown date; a lively conversation about the decline of oratory and education.
    Histories (Loeb volumes 111 and 249, with an index in 322), probably issued in parts from 105 onwards. A great work that originally consisted of at least twelve books covering the period 69–96 CE, only Books I–IV and part of Book V survive, dealing in detail with the dramatic years 69–70.
    Annals (in Loeb volumes 249, 322 and 312), Tacitus’s other great work, originally covering the period 14–68 CE (Emperors Tiberius, Gaius, Claudius, Nero) and published between 115 and about 120. Of sixteen books at least, there survive Books I–IV (covering the years 14–28); a bit of Book V and all Book VI (31–37); part of Book XI (from 47); Books XII–XV and part of Book XVI (to 66).

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

    The Loeb Classical Library® is the only existing series of books which, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church fathers who made particular use of pagan culture—in short, our entire classical heritage is represented here in convenient and well-printed pocket volumes in which an up-to-date text and accurate and literate English translation face each other page by page. The editors provide substantive introductions as well as essential critical and explanatory notes and selective bibliographies.
    Life and Character of Agricola, written in 97–98, specially interesting because of Agricola’s career in BritainVol.2: 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.


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Meer informatie
Condition Tweedehands - Zeer goed
Taal Verenigd Koninkrijk
Geillustreerd Nee
Publicaton Date 1 jan. 1986
Jaar 1986
Auteur / Cartograaf / Fotograaf Tacite, Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Uitgever Harvard University Press
First Edition Nee
Signed edition Nee
Signed binding Nee
Aux armes Nee
Band / Formaat Gebonden
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