4: Bibliography
Critical Editions
Fisher, C. D. (ed.) (1906), Cornelii Taciti Annalium Ab Excessu Divi Augusti Libri , Oxford.
Koestermann, E. (ed.) (1965), Cornelii Taciti Libri Qui Supersunt, Tom. I: Ab Excessu Divi Augusti , Leipzig.
Heubner, H. (ed.) (1994), P. Cornelii Taciti Libri Qui Supersunt, Tom. I: Ab Excessu Divi Augusti , Stuttgart [2nd, corrected edition; first edition 1983].
Wellesley, K. (ed.) (1986), Cornelii Taciti Libri Qui Supersunt, Tomus I, Pars Secunda: Ab Excessu Divi Augusti Libri XI–XVI , Leipzig.
Commentaries
Furneaux, H. (1907), Cornelii Taciti Annalium Ab Excessu Divi Augusti Libri/The Annals of Tacitus edited with introduction and notes, vol. II. Books XI–XVI , 2nd edn, revised by H. F. Pelham and C. D. Fisher, Oxford.
Koestermann, E. (1968), Cornelius Tacitus, Annalen, erläutert und mit einer Einleitung versehen, Band IV: Buch 14–16 , Heidelberg.
Miller, N. P. (1973), Cornelii Taciti Annalium Liber XV , Basingstoke and London.
Translations
Jackson, J. (1937), Tacitus, Annals, Books XIII–XVI , Loeb Classical Library, London and Cambridge, Mass.
Woodman, A. J. (2004), Tacitus, The Annals , translated, with introduction and notes, Indianapolis and Cambridge.
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