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This reader contains selections from Tacitus, Suetonius and Seneca on the first five Roman emperors. They present a dark world of murder, mayhem, debauchery and palace intrigue: Augustus with his firm moral policies and secret adulterous affairs; the sour and depraved Tiberius; the extravagance and madness of Caligula; the slobbering and ineffective Claudius; and Nero with his absurd artistic pretensions. Exciting, horrific and moving, the selections are also valuable for studying style and rhetoric, human nature and the roles of women, imperialism and corruption. The book is aimed at students moving on to genuine, unsimplified Latin prose after completing an introductory Latin course. It contains a useful introduction, detailed notes providing a lot of help with grammar, expression and translation, a full vocabulary, and an appreciation offering historical comment for context and analysis and literary criticism to make the passages come alive as literature and enhance students' perception and enjoyment.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: From Augustus to Nero
• Subtitle: An Intermediate Latin Reader
• Author: Garrett G. FaganPaul Murgatroyd
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780521821209
• ISBN: 0521821207
• ID: 02045160
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 607 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 179 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. March 2006

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