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....

The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus\" well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account of Britain that has come down to us....

I am entering on the history of a period rich in disasters, frightful in its wars, torn by civil strife, and even in peace full of horrors. In the Histories, Tacitus brings to life the events of one of the most tumultuous periods of the Roman empire. After the suicide of the Emperor Nero in AD69, Rome entered into a period of extreme civil unrest....

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Translated by Alfred J. Church. Described by two prominent twentieth century leftist academics as one of the “most dangerous books ever written,” Roman historian Tacitus’s 98 AD work Germania is credited with almost single-handedly creating modern German nationalism after the manuscript’s rediscovery in 1462....

One of the raciest texts around, full of up-to date relevance too! Two translations to compare plus essential questions for those studying this text at advanced level, an...

"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\'....