Tacitus Reader

Tacitus, Cornelius., Rutledge, Steven H.

ISBN 10: 0865166978 / ISBN 13: 9780865166974

Published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tacitus Reader
• Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: Latin
• ISBN 10: 0865166978
• ISBN 13: 9780865166974
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.53 pounds

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Synopsis

This edition s selected passages from Tacitus historical and minor works give a sample of a Latin author acknowledged as one of the most difficult and also the most rewarding. Rutledge presents a Tacitus he unapologetically terms the greatest of the Roman historians in reading selections that highlight major subjects and themes: the corruption of power, confrontation with barbarians, and narratives of historically significant episodes, many marked by the era s signature violence, promiscuity, and murderous death. Tacitus stylistic brilliance likewise finds its due here: his powerful language, vivid character portrayal, use of speeches, and the authority he claims for himself as historian. The commentary addresses problems Tacitean syntax and grammar may pose for readers new to the author, and helps to situate Tacitus among other Roman historians. Special Features: Introduction to Tacitus works, style, and place in Roman historiography; 609 lines of unadapted Latin text in 24 selections from 5 works: Agricola 2.1 3.2; 30.1 5; Germania 1.1, 2.1 2; 37.2 5; Dialogus 1.1 3; 2.1 2; Historiae 1.15, 1.16; 1.41, 1.49; 3.82 83; Annales 1.1; 1.9 10; 1.74; 2.69; 4.1 2, 4.3; 6.1; 6.50 51; 11.24; 11.29 30; 11.31 32; 11.37 38; 14.4 6; 14.8; 15.38; 15.44; Notes at the back and complete vocabulary Suggested reading; genealogical charts; Two maps and five illustrations

About the Author

Steven H. Rutledge is Adjunct Professor in the Department of History at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, and Associate Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he taught 1996 2012. A frequent lecturer on Roman history and culture at the Smithsonian, he also served as a consultant for the History Channel. He is author of Imperial Inquisitions: Prosecutors and Informants from Tiberius to Domitian (Routledge 2001); Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting (Oxford 2012); and numerous articles on Roman culture, literature, and history.