The complete historical works of the greatest chronicler of the Roman Empire in
a wholly revised and updated translation.
A brilliant narrator and a master stylist, Tacitus served as administrator and
senator, a career that gave him an intimate view of the empire at its highest
levels, and of the dramatic, violent, and often bloody events of the first
century. In the "Annals, "he writes about Augustus Caesar's death and observes
the inner workings of the courts of the emperors Tiberius and Nero. In the
"Histories, "he describes an empire in tumult, four emperors reigning in one
year, each overthrown by the next. The "Agricola, "a