Authors:Tacitus, F. R. D. Goodyear,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: annals, commentaries, books, texts, cambridge, tacitus, volume, classical
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2005-01-20
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0521609313
ISBN-13: 9780521609319
The first in a four-volume edition of Tacitus Annals 1-6. The Annals are Tacitus’ brilliant account of Roman imperial history from the death of Augustus to the death of Nero. Books 1-6 describe the reign of Tiberius. Professor Goodyear’s introduction to the series deals concisely with the background to the Annals. He outlines the history of Tacitean scholarship to the present day and shows how Tacitus’ historical judgements were sometimes distorted by his preoccupations with style and with the moral function of historical writing. The commentary attends equally to literary, h
Authors:Mark J. Cherry, John F. Peppin,
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: bioethics, annals, routledge, regional, perspectives
Number of Pages: 404
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 9026519524
ISBN-13: 9789026519529
Regional Perspectives in Bioethics" illustrates the ways in which the national and international political landscape encompasses persons from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with widely varying moral intuitions, premises, evaluations and commitments.
Authors:Nicetas Choniates, Harry J. Magoulias,
Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr
Keywords: choniates, annals, niketas, translation, texts, byzantine, byzantium, city
Number of Pages: 441
Published: 1984-05
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0814317642
ISBN-13: 9780814317648
Author: Anonymou
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: annals
Number of Pages: 338
Published: 2009-09-21
List price: $31.75
ISBN-10: 1113620633
ISBN-13: 9781113620637
This book an EXACT reproduction of the original book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appre
Author: Tacitus
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Keywords: annals
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2004-09
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0872205584
ISBN-13: 9780872205581
A.J. Woodman’s translation combines accuracy and Tacitean invention, masterfully conveying Tacitus’ distinctive and powerful manner of expression, and reflecting the best of current scholarship. An introductory essay discusses Tacitus’ career, the period about which he wrote, the nature of historical writing in the Roman world, and the principles of translation which have shaped this rendering. No other translation captures more successfully the flavor, nuance, and power of Tacitus’ greatest work. This edition includes extensive notes; suggestions for further reading; appendices exp
Author:
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: buwei, annals
Number of Pages: 880
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0804733546
ISBN-13: 9780804733540
This is the first complete English translation of Lüshi chunqiu, compiled in 239 b. c. under the patronage of Lü Buwei, prime minister to the ruler of the state of Qin, who was to become the first emperor of a newly unified China fifteen years later. Lü retained a group of scholars whose aim was to encompass the world’s knowledge in one great encyclopedia; so delighted was Lü with the finished work that he is said to have offered a fabulous prize of gold to anyone who could add or subtract even a single word. An exceptionally rich and comprehensive compendium, The Annals of Lü B
Author: Cornelius Tacitus
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: annals
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 1419152327
ISBN-13: 9781419152320
