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    Annals and Histories

    Introduction by Robin Lane Fox

    Part of Everyman's Library Classics Series

    Author Tacitus
    Introduction by Robin Lane Fox
    Translated by Alfred Church, William Brodribb
    Notes by Eleanor Cowan
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    $40.00 US
    Knopf | Everyman's Library
    5.1"W x 8.26"H x 1.8"D  
    On sale Oct 06, 2009 | 888 Pages | 9780307267504
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    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.
    CORNELIUS TACITUS was born c. 55 A.D. and died in 117 A.D. View titles by Tacitus
    “[Annals] is probably the sharpest analysis of political (and other) corruption ever written. ” —Mary Beard, The New York Times

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    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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    CORNELIUS TACITUS was born c. 55 A.D. and died in 117 A.D. View titles by Tacitus

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    “[Annals] is probably the sharpest analysis of political (and other) corruption ever written. ” —Mary Beard, The New York Times

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