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The Histories

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In AD 68 Nero’s suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger. In the surviving books of his Histories the barrister-historian Tacitus, writing some thirty years after the events he describes, gives a detailed account of the ‘long but single year’ when four emperors emerged in succession: Galba, the martinet; Otho, conspirator and dandy; Vitellius, the unambitious hedonist; and the ultimate victor, Vespasian, who established the Flavian dynasty. With great vividness and emotional power, Tacitus’ gripping narrative lays bare corruption, injustice and folly, and sheds lasting light on the nature of power.

[This revised version sensitively updates Kenneth Wellesley’s original translation to render it more accessible to the modern reader. This edition contains a new introduction by Rhiannon Ash discussing Tacitus’ life and his contemporary audience, a note on the text, suggested further reading, a glossary of places and peoples, maps, expanded notes and a chronology.]

Language: English

Pages: 342

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Release: June 25, 2009

ISBN: 0140449647

ISBN 13: 9780140449648

The Histories

4/5 ( ratings)

In AD 68 Nero’s suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger. In the surviving books of his Histories the barrister-historian Tacitus, writing some thirty years after the events he describes, gives a detailed account of the ‘long but single year’ when four emperors emerged in succession: Galba, the martinet; Otho, conspirator and dandy; Vitellius, the unambitious hedonist; and the ultimate victor, Vespasian, who established the Flavian dynasty. With great vividness and emotional power, Tacitus’ gripping narrative lays bare corruption, injustice and folly, and sheds lasting light on the nature of power.

[This revised version sensitively updates Kenneth Wellesley’s original translation to render it more accessible to the modern reader. This edition contains a new introduction by Rhiannon Ash discussing Tacitus’ life and his contemporary audience, a note on the text, suggested further reading, a glossary of places and peoples, maps, expanded notes and a chronology.]

Language: English

Pages: 342

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Release: June 25, 2009

ISBN: 0140449647

ISBN 13: 9780140449648

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