The Annals of Tacitus: Book 11
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The Annals of Tacitus: Book 11

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The Annals of Tacitus: Book 11

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Book 11, the first of the later books of the Annals to survive, narrates two years in the reign of Claudius, AD 47–8. While Claudius is busy with the duties of his censorship, his wife Messalina is having a very public love affair with the young aristocrat Silius that eventually ruins her. In a book that also treats German, eastern, and other Roman internal affairs, a third of the surviving narrative is devoted to the destruction of Messalina. Here we encounter the classic portrayal of a Claudius ignorant and manipulated by those around him in an extended narrative that shows Tacitus at his dramatic and cynical best. This edition of Book 11, the first scholarly one in English in over a hundred years, contains a full introduction, a newly-edited Latin text with apparatus, and a comprehensive commentary that illuminates historical, historiographical, textual, linguistic, and literary issues that arise from the narrative.

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Yes, you can access The Annals of Tacitus: Book 11 by Tacitus, S. J. V. Malloch in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Introduction
  5. Text and critical apparatus
  6. Cornelii Taciti ab Excessu Divi Augusti Liber XI
  7. 1-22 The Year 47
  8. 8-10 Affairs in the East: Armenia and Parthia
  9. 11 The Ludi Saeculares; Nero at the Lusus Troiae
  10. 12 The Affair of Messalina and Silius
  11. 13-14 Claudius’ Munia Censoria
  12. 15 The Haruspices
  13. 16-17 Italicus and the Cherusci
  14. 18-20 Domitius Corbulo and Curtius Rufus in Germany
  15. 20.3 Curtius Rufus in Upper Germany
  16. 21 Curtius Rufus: A Character Sketch
  17. 22 An Assassination Attempt and the Quaestorship
  18. 23-38 The Year 48
  19. 23-25.1 The Admission of the Primores Galliae to the Roman Senate
  20. 25.2-5 The End of Claudius’ Censorship
  21. 26-38 The Fall of Messalina
  22. Appendix
  23. Works cited
  24. Index