This is an edition of Tacitus' work on oratory, with a substantial introduction and commentary. It is the first commentary in English in over 100 years and the only one at this level. It is designed to elucidate problems of language and reference in the text and to put the reader in the picture as regards late first-century AD society and literature, particularly oratory, still the most important activity within the Roman élite.
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"Mayer has produced an excellent commentary, judicious and full but to the point. The grammatical notes are first rate, and the translations of the technical terms of Latin literary criticism are clear and precise...This fine edition should attract more students to this beguiling work." New England Classical Journal
"...Professor Mayer has presented us with a splendid edition, up-to-date in every way, in the series 'Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics.' He has done great service to all students of Latin literature, Roman rhetoric and oratory, and above all Tacitus." Religious Studies Review
"...Professor Mayer has presented us with a splendid edition, up-to-date in every way, in the series 'Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics.' He has done great service to all students of Latin literature, Roman rhetoric and oratory, and above all Tacitus." Religious Studies Review
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Very up to date bibliography and high quality research, the sort one expects from the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series. The introductory material is 50 pages of in-depth information complemented with 129 pages of line-by-line commentary. Anyone interested in a discussion of rhetoric and oratory in the 1st century C.E. in a style a la Cicero will want to look at this commentary. The eloquence of this period of Roman literature is too good to resist.
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Saepe ex me requiris, Iuste Fabi, cur, cum priora saecula tot eminentium oratorum ingeniis gloriaque floruerint, nostra potissimum aetas deserta et laude eloquentiae orbata uix nomen ipsum oratoris retineat; nexus denim iota appellamus nisiantiquos, horum autem temporum diserti causidici et adequate et patroni et quiduis potius quam oratores uocantur. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
synonymous doublet, exempla gratia, contemporary oratory, tricolon crescendo, centumviral court, modern eloquence, forensic oratory, ideal orator, deliberative oratory, common pair, dramatic date Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cassius Severus, Velleius Paterculus, Seneca the Elder, Asinius Pollio, Eprius Marcellus, Helvidius Priscus, Domitius Afer, Fabius Justus, Julius Caesar, Professor Winterbottom, Thrasea Paetus, Aulus Gellius, Cicero's Brutus, Porcius Cato, Saleius Bassus, Sempronius Gracchus, Silius Italicus, Vari Thyestes New!
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Saepe ex me requiris, Iuste Fabi, cur, cum priora saecula tot eminentium oratorum ingeniis gloriaque floruerint, nostra potissimum aetas deserta et laude eloquentiae orbata uix nomen ipsum oratoris retineat; nexus denim iota appellamus nisiantiquos, horum autem temporum diserti causidici et adequate et patroni et quiduis potius quam oratores uocantur. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
synonymous doublet, exempla gratia, contemporary oratory, tricolon crescendo, centumviral court, modern eloquence, forensic oratory, ideal orator, deliberative oratory, common pair, dramatic date Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cassius Severus, Velleius Paterculus, Seneca the Elder, Asinius Pollio, Eprius Marcellus, Helvidius Priscus, Domitius Afer, Fabius Justus, Julius Caesar, Professor Winterbottom, Thrasea Paetus, Aulus Gellius, Cicero's Brutus, Porcius Cato, Saleius Bassus, Sempronius Gracchus, Silius Italicus, Vari Thyestes New!
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