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Title: Tacitus: Histories I-III (Loeb III) by Tacitus ISBN: 0-674-99123-0 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1985 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Summary: Initium mihi operis Servius Galba iterum . . .
Comment: The Histories (Books I-III) by Tacitus must be one of the best historical writings of the ancient world. A chronicle of the turbulent events taking place in the years 69 A.D. and 70 A.D., these books capture what it must have been like to be where the action was taking place. It (the account) begins almost immediately with the brutal murder of the emperor Galba. It continues with most brief reign of Otho, an essentially defensive war against his most fearsome rival, Vitellius. Vitellius then captures Rome, kills Otho, and then himself is emersed in a war against Vespasian, who eventually defeats Vitellius. This history is wonderful firstly for its relative lack of biassed opinion. Almost all actions of the historical figures in the books are represented with the utmost objectivity. Only Suetonius, author of The Twelve Caesars surpasses him in this way. The books are filled with the most captivating descriptions of people and places. As one reads, one senses the terror of civil war and of battle. The reader is "put into the shoes" of thoses present at those awesome events. The descriptions of the second battle at Cremona, the documentation of the atrocities, are enough to make one's stomach turn. Tacitus was lucky to have had access to eyewitnesses and the imperial archives while writing these histories. The only thing to be truly aware of are the speaches quoted on the books. For anyone who is no familiar with ancient writings: it was not uncommon practice to "fill the gaps" with artificial speaches. You will, however get a good sense of what was on in the supposed orator's mind. Recommendations to anyone utterly obsessed with the history of imperial Rome seen through the eyes of people who were there. I'm in the process of reading books IV-V of the histories and they have just the same flavour! I hope you'll enjoy these histories as much as I have.
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Title: Tacitus: Histories IV-V, Annals I-III (Loeb Classical Library 249) by Tacitus, John Jackson, Clifford H. Moore ISBN: 0674992741 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1969 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Caesar: The Gallic War (Loeb Classical Library #72) by Julius Caesar, H.J. Edwards ISBN: 0674990803 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1917 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Suetonius : The Lives of the Caesars : The Deified Augustus-Tiberius, Gaius Caligula (Loeb Classical Library, No 31) by Suetonius, J. C. Rolfe, K. R. Bradley ISBN: 0674995708 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Pliny Letters and Panegyricus (Loeb Classical Library, Vol 55) by Pliny the Younger, Pliny, Betty Radice ISBN: 0674990617 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1969 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Livy: History of Rome, Books 1-2, (LCL, 114) by Titus Livius Livy, B. O. Foster ISBN: 0674991265 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1976 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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