The Annals & The Histories
$35.09
- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2003
Summary
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 A.D. 14, at the death of Augustus, recounting the reigns of Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula), Claudius, and Nero, and conclude in A.D. 68, the year of Nero’s suicide. The Histories document the tumultuous year A.D. 69, when Emperors Galba, Otho, and Vitellius all perished in quick succession…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812966992 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812966996 |
| Author: | Tacitus, Shelby Foote, Moses Hadas, Alfred Church, William Brodribb |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2003 |
| Weight: | 497g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 132mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
Critics Review
“An immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the deepest observations and the most lively images.” -Edward Gibbon
“An immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the deepest observations and the most lively images.” —Edward Gibbon
Tacitus
Shelby Foote, novelist, historian, and playwright, authored The Civil War, a three-volume narrative that is one of the greatest works of twentieth-century history. He lives in Memphis.
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