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  • Published: 2 January 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141392561
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 544

Annals




Compelling new translation of the Annals, by Cynthia Damon

Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity and vivid intensity Tacitus describes the reign of terror under the corrupt Tiberius, the great fire of Rome during the time of Nero and the wars, poisonings, scandals, conspiracies and murders that were part of imperial life. Despite his claim that the Annals were written objectively, Tacitus' account is sharply critical of the emperors' excesses and fearful for the future of imperial Rome, while also filled with a longing for its past glories.

  • Published: 2 January 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141392561
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 544

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About the author

Tacitus

Date: 2013-08-06 Tacitus (ca. 56 - ca. 117) was a senator and historian of the Roman Empire. Robin Lane Fox is Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at New College, Oxford and author of Alexander the Great and The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome. Eleanor Cowan is Lecturer in Ancient History at Leicester University. Tacitus studied rhetoric in Rome and rose to eminence as a pleader at the Roman Bar. In 77 AD he married the daughter of Agricola, conqueror of Britain, of whom he later wrote a biography.

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