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 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.