The complete historical works of the greatest chronicler of
the Roman Empire in a wholly revised and updated translation.
A brilliant narrator and a master stylist, Tacitus served as
administrator and senator, a career that gave him an intimate view
of the empire at its highest levels, and of the dramatic, violent,
and often bloody events of the first century. In the Annals, he
writes about Augustus Caesar’s death and observes the inner
workings of the courts of the emperors Tiberius and Nero. In the
Histories, he describes an empire in tumult, four emperors reigning
in one year, each overthrown by the next. The Agricola, a biography
of Tacitus’s father-in-law, Julius Agricola—the most celebrated
governor of Roman Britain—is the first detailed account of the
island that would eventually rule over a quarter of the earth. And
in the Germania, the famed warrior-barbarians of ancient Germany
come richly to life.
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