Annals: Bk. 1, w. vocab

by Tacitus, Norma Miller (Editor)

Übersetzung aus: „Tacitus' Geschichte der Regierung des Kaisers Tiberius (Annalen Buch I – VI.), übersetzt und erklärt von Adolf Stahr“, Verlag von I. Guttentag, Berlin 1871

Dieses Buch beschreibt die Jahre 14 bis 15 nach Chr.

233 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 68

About the author

born perhaps 55
died perhaps 120

From the death of Augustus in 14 Histories and Annals , greatest works of Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Roman public official, concern the period to Domitian in 96.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus served as a senator of the empire. The major portions examine the reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those four emperors, who reigned in the year. They span the empire to the years of the first Jewish war in 70. One enormous four-books long lacuna survives in the texts.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus discusses oratory in dialogue format in Dialogus de oratoribus , Germania in De origine et situ Germanorum , and biographical notes about Gnaeus Julius Agricola, his father-in-law, primarily during his campaign in Britannia (see De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae ).

Reviews

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

read for *uni* - and laboriously translated 1.1-15 and 1.31-45.
honestly, i don't really like tacitus, so it has to be a low rating, but norma miller's introduction and notes are really useful, and after reading ellen o'gorman, i do have a bit of admiration for tacitus' manipulation of language.

[Lalla lettrice · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lettura resa faticosa dai mille impegni dovuti alla maturità, letto proprio per preparare la tesina.
Libro interessante, anche se sicuramente non di facile lettura, a causa dello stile un po' lento e poco scorrevole (le tre stelle sono dovute a questo).
Da amante della storia romana ho però apprezzato gli avvenimenti raccontati, in particolar modo i ritratti degli imperatori.