Annals and Histories
$42.30
- Hardcover
920 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2009
Summary
This new Everyman edition includes Tacitus’s complete historical works - The Annals, the Histories, the Agricola and the Germania.
Tacitus was the greatest historian of the Roman empire. Born in about AD 55, he served as administrator and leading senator. This career gave him an intimate view of the empire at its highest levels, experience brought to bear on his writing.
His major works are the Annals and the Histories, both of which have come down to us incomplete. Between th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593111 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593117 |
| Author: | Tacitus |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 920 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2009 |
| Weight: | 896g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 130mm x 45mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
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Tacitus
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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