Dimensions
133 x 201 x 27mm
Cornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid.
'The Annals' commence in AD14, at the death of Augustus, recounting the reigns of Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula), Claudius, and Nero, and conclude in AD68, the year of Nero's suicide.
'The Histories' document the tumultuous year AD69, when Emperors Galba, Otho, and Vitellius all perished in quick succession, ushering in Vespasian's ten-year reign.
According to historian Will Durant, "[We must] rank Tacitus among the greatest . . . The portraits he draws stand out more clearly, stride the stage more livingly than any others in historical literature." This 'Modern Library Paperback Classic' includes newly commissioned endnotes.
