The Annals of Tacitus: Book 4

Book 4 of Tacitus' Annals, described by Sir Ronald Syme as 'the best that Tacitus ever wrote', covers the years AD 23-28, the pivotal period in the principate of the emperor Tiberius. Under the malign influence of Sejanus, the henchman who duped him and was loaded with honours, Tiberius withdrew to the island of Capri and was never again seen in Rome, where the treason trials engendered an atmosphere of terror. The volume presents a new text of Book 4, as well as a full commentary on the text, covering textual, literary, linguistic and historical matters. The introduction discusses the relationship between Tacitus and Sallust. The volume completes the sequence which began with commentary on Books 1 and 2 of the Annals by F. R. D. Goodyear (1972, 1981) and was continued by commentary on Book 3 by A. J. Woodman and R. H. Martin (1996) and on Books 5-6 by A. J. Woodman (2016).

Author: A. J. Woodman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02/08/2024
Pages: 371
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9781108411479

About the Author
Woodman, A. J.: - A. J. Woodman is Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Virginia and Emeritus Professor of Latin at Durham University. He has published numerous books, including fourteen previously with Cambridge University Press. This is also his fifth edition for the series Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, his most recent being The 'Annals' of Tacitus: Books 5-6 (Cambridge, 2016).

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