Histories: Complete Edition (The Five Books) - Softcover

Tacitus

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9788562022531: Histories: Complete Edition (The Five Books)

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ISBN 10: 8562022535 ISBN 13: 9788562022531

Publisher: IAP, 2009

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Book written by Tacitus in AD 100-110 about the Roman Empire and its problems and wars in the years AD 69-70. The author writes about a period of the Roman history "rich in disasters, frightful in its wars, torn by civil strife."

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Tacitus is considered one of the most important historians of Roman antiquity. His works span almost the complete history of the Roman Empire. His writings are characterized by boldness and sharp wit that is unique to him.

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The Roman senator and historian Tacitus (writing circa 105 C.E.) records the events of the Empire for the forty-some years following the death of Nero in 68 C.E. The work by today's standards would be considered more encyclopedic than analytic. The literal translation leaves a clumsy chaos of stodgy vocabulary: "reckless cupidity"; "prosecuted for peculation"; "precipitated from his chair." Narrator James Adams tries to pull the dog from the fire by reading as though he understands the syntax and archaic idioms. With his educated British accent he maintains a precise articulation and heroically modulates the word emphasis to make it sound like a language we would recognize. Since the translator isn't credited, one wonders if it might have been a computer. J.A.H. � AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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