TY - BOOK ID - 3421895 TI - The annals of Tacitus. Book 11 AU - Tacite, 0055?-0120? AU - Malloch, Simon J. V. PY - 2020 VL - 51 SN - 9781107011106 9781108820165 1107011108 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Rome KW - History KW - Tacitus, Cornelius. KW - Rome - History - Claudius, 41-54 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3421895 AB - 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. ER -