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The Annals & the Histories - (Modern Library Classics) by Tacitus (Paperback)

The Annals & the Histories - (Modern Library Classics) by  Tacitus (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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, recounting the reigns of Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula), Claudius, and Nero, and conclude in a.d. 68, the year of Nero's suicide.<i> The Histories</i> document the tumultuous year a.d. 69, when Emperors Galba, Otho, and Vitellius all perished in quick succession, ushering in Vespasian's ten-year reign. According to historian Will Durant, "[We must] rank Tacitus among the greatest. . . . The portraits he draws stand out more clearly, stride the stage more livingly than any others in historical literature." This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes newly commissioned endnotes.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"An immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the deepest observations and the most lively images." --Edward Gibbon<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Shelby Foote</b>, novelist, historian, and playwright, authored <i>The Civil War</i>, a three-volume narrative that is one of the greatest works of twentieth-century history. He lives in Memphis.

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