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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100307267504

ISBN-139780307267504

eBay Product ID (ePID)72557495

Product Key Features

Original LanguageLatin

Book TitleAnnals and Histories : Introduction by Robin Lane Fox

Number of Pages888 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

TopicMilitary / Ancient, Ancient / Rome, Ancient & Classical

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Collections, History

AuthorTacitus

Book SeriesEveryman's Library Classics Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.8 in

Item Weight31.7 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Notes byCowan, Eleanor

Reviews"[ Annals ] is probably the sharpest analysis of political (and other) corruption ever written. " --Mary Beard, The New York Times

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal937.07

SynopsisThe 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 biography of Tacitus's father-in-law, Julius Agricola--the most celebrated governor of Roman Britain--is the first detailed account of the island that would eventually rule over a quarter of the earth. And in the Germania, the famed warrior-barbarians of ancient Germany come richly to life., A wholly revised and updated translated of the complete historical works of the greatest chronicler of the Roman Empire, presented in a fine hardcover edition. A brilliant narrator and a master stylist, Cornelius 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 biography of Tacitus's father-in-law, Julius Agricola--the most celebrated governor of Roman Britain--is the first detailed account of the island that would eventually rule over a quarter of the earth. And in the Germania, the famed warrior-barbarians of ancient Germany come richly to life. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman's Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.