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The Annals & The Histories

By Tacitus
Introduction by Shelby Foote
Edited by Moses Hadas
Translated by Alfred Church and William Brodribb

By Tacitus
Introduction by Shelby Foote
Edited by Moses Hadas
Translated by Alfred Church and William Brodribb

By Tacitus
Introduction by Shelby Foote
Edited by Moses Hadas
Translated by Alfred Church and William Brodribb

By Tacitus
Introduction by Shelby Foote
Edited by Moses Hadas
Translated by Alfred Church and William Brodribb

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    About The Annals & The Histories

    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, 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.

    About The Annals & The Histories

    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, 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.

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    Product Details

    Category: Ancient World History | Nonfiction Classics | Politics

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Apr 08, 2003 | 640 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780812966992

    Category: Ancient World History | Nonfiction Classics | Politics

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Dec 18, 2007 | 640 Pages | ISBN 9780307431936
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