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This unadapted Latin text is designed to allow the intermediate/advanced student at the high school or college level to read Latin rapidly, without having constantly to consult a dictionary or grammar. The facing vocabulary and comprehensive grammar notes facilitate a rapid read. The Res Gestae, his autobiography, reveals as much about Augustus and his accomplishments through what it omits as what it contains. This primary document allows students rare access to non-literary historical Latin, to the most impressive of all Latin inscriptions: the Res Gestae of Rome's first emperor, his accomplishments as he sought to have them presented.

Features

Comprehensive introduction provides the historical background, organizational analysis, and grammatical idiosyncracies of the inscription
Complete unadapted Latin text of the inscription with appendix (327 lines) including macrons with same- and facing-page vocabulary and notes
Grammatical, lexical, and historical commentary in facing-page notes
Eight black-and-white illustrations, maps, and photographs
Index of proper names with textual references and identifications
Complete vocabulary

Author Bio

Rex E. Wallace is Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts, where he has been teaching since 1985. He received his PhD in Linguistics from The Ohio State University in 1984. His major research and teaching interests are Greek and Latin linguistics, historical linguistics, and English morphology and lexicography. He has coedited two books on linguistics, Language Files2 (with Jean Godby and Catherine Jolley; Reynoldsberg, 1982) and Morphology (with Arnold Zwicky; Columbus, 1984). Wallace has also authored/coauthored over 30 articles on Italic linguistics, Etruscan, and ancient Greek.

Augustus (63 BC-AD 14) known as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus for the period of his life prior to 27 BC, was the first and among the most important of the Roman Emperors.