TY - BOOK ID - 85167229 TI - The Annals of Tacitus. PY - 2017 SN - 131675779X 1316591409 1316756955 1107152704 1316606651 9781107152700 9781316606650 9781316757796 PB - Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Tacitus, Cornelius. KW - Tacitus, Cornelius KW - Tacitus, Cornelius. - Annales UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85167229 AB - Books 5 and 6 of Tacitus' Annals cover the last years of the emperor Tiberius. Although most of Book 5 is lost, Book 6 survives complete and offers a vivid narrative of the increasingly tyrannical princeps, secluded on the island of Capri; the book ends with his death and obituary notice, one of the most celebrated passages of classical literature. The volume presents a new text of Books 5 and 6, restoring the division between them which was proposed by Lipsius, as well as a full commentary on the text, covering textual, literary, linguistic and historical matters. An Appendix discusses 'The Tacitean Tiberius'. The volume rounds off the sequence which began with commentary on Books 1 and 2 of Tacitus' Annals by F. R. D. Goodyear (1972, 1981) and was continued by commentary on Book 3 by A. J. Woodman and R. H. Martin (1996). ER -