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The Complete Works of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus
Category: Classic Fiction
Ancient Roman senator and historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus is known throughout Western history as one of the greatest historical writers of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He lived during the first century AD and was the son of a wealthy aristocratic family. Not much is known about his personal l ...Show more
The Histories by Tacitus
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
AD 69, the year following Nero's suicide and marking the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome, was one of the most dramatic and dangerous in the city's history. In the surviving books of his Histories, the great barrister-historian Tacitus gives a gripping account of the long but single year' that ...Show more
The Histories by Cornelius Tacitus
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'The story I now commence is rich in vicissitudes, grim with warfare, torn by civil strife, a tale of horror even during times of peace.' Edward Gibbon called The Histories an 'immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the deepest observations and the most lively images'. Its author, Corne ...Show more
The Histories by Cornelius Tacitus
Category: Popular History
In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, though not of chaos. In the surviving books of his "Histories" the barrister-historian Tacitus, writing some thirty years after the events he describes, gives us a detailed accoun ...Show more
The Madness of Nero by Cornelius Tacitus
Category: Fiction
An Emperor's crimes provoke the wrath of the gods . . . Nero has seized control of Rome and the crown. He is willing to destroy anyone that gets in his way. No one is safe - not even his scheming mother. As its new Emperor sinks to insane levels of brutality, Rome becomes a hell of corruption, depra ...Show more