Tacitus, Annals Iv: A Selection

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of <i>Annals</i> XIV, 1¿13, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be...

Tacitus (c. 55-c. 120 CE), renowned for concision and psychology, is paramount as a historian of the early Roman empire. What survives of Histories covers the dramatic years 69-70. What survives of Annals tells an often terrible tale of 14-28, 31-37,...

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. <i>The Annals </i>commence in a.d. 14, at the death of Augustus,...