Augustus might have established the Principate, but it was up to his successors to continue it and prevent Rome from once against descending into civil war. Tacitus in The Annals of Imperial Rome, the reigns of the Caesars from Tiberius to the death of Nero which would lead to the events in the wri...
The death of Nero begins a Roman bloodletting that Augustus had thought he had completely ended as four men will within a year claim the title Emperor. The Histories by Tacitus follows the aftermath of Nero’s death as a succession of men claimed the throne until the Flavians emerge to return the Ro...
Every one of Roman’s greatest historians began their writing career with some piece, for one such man it was a biography of his father-in-law and an ethnographic work about Germanic tribes. Agricola and Germany are the first written works by Cornelius Tacitus, which are both the shortest and the on...
Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome, with all of its political maneuverng, backstabbing, plotting, and of course sex (was there sex in the Annals? Actually I'm not really all that sure, it's not like it was some sort of Roman novel, it was a history, and from my experience the Histories tend to be nowh...
This is two short works by the Historian Tacitus. The Agricola is a biography of Tacitus' father in law and mostly focuses on his time campaigning in Britain. The Germania is not really so much history as a description of the ways of the people of Germany. Both works are minor, albeit fascinating...
As I was reading this for the second time I simply could not believe how brutal this piece of literature was, and what is more impressive is that it is based on real life events. It is authors like Tacitus that make me want to throw modern historical fiction into the fire place. In fact he is the on...
I did this for A-level Latin, and I swear if I ever have to read Tacitus again I may scream. In translation: A lot of politics, and battles and gory deaths (mainly suicides), with a few nuggets like Agrippina's scheming.In original Latin: Godawful. Tacitus is a horrible author to translate: his sent...
A friend of mine who teaches Latin for a living says it was this book (and Suetonius' The Twelves Caesars) that led to her fascination with things Roman and a change in her concentration. I wasn't hugely enamored at first. As our initial conversation went: Me: Well, so far this isn't five star love...
It took me a while to read, but it's a very interesting book. Not surprisingly, the author presupposed his audience would have a working knowledge of Roman history and politics, so it helps to have a survey history(or the Internet) handy while reading. I found it fascinating and sometimes a little u...
While I have loved most of the selections that Farrington chose in other books, I wasn't crazy about these translations, primarily old public domain (the word quoth appears) or adapted by Brian & Adrian Murdoch. There is a good sampling here, I like the selections but would advise anyone interested ...
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