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Agricola and Germany by Anthony B. (TRN) Cornelius; Birley Tacitus
Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Annals : The reigns of Tiberius, Clauduis and Nero by Cornelius Tacitus
Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'He was atrocious in his brutality, but his lechery was kept hidden...In the end, he erupted into an orgy of crime and ignominy alike' Such is Tacitus' obituary of Tiberius, and he is no less caustic in his opinion of the weak and cuckolded Claudius and the 'artist' Nero. The Annals is a gripping accoun ...Show more
The Annals of Imperial Rome by Cornelius Tacitus; Michael Grant (Foreword by, Translator, Introduction by)
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and insight the history of the Roman Empire during the first century A.D. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant. Tacitus' ...Show more
The Histories by Cornelius Tacitus
Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'The story I now commence is rich in vicissitudes, grim with warfare, torn by civil strife, a tale of horror even during times of peace.' Edward Gibbon called The Histories an 'immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the deepest observations and the most lively images'. Its author, Corne ...Show more
The Histories by Cornelius Tacitus
Category: Classics
In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, though not of chaos. In the surviving books of his "Histories" the barrister-historian Tacitus, writing some thirty years after the events he describes, gives us a detailed accoun ...Show more
The Histories by Tacitus; Caius Cornelius Tacitus
Category: Classics
In AD 68, Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, with four emperors-Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian- emerging in succession. Based on authoritative sources, "The Histories" vividly recounts the details of the "long but s ...Show more
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