His final work, regarded by many as the best work of latest scholarship, Tacitus’ The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and perception the historical past of the Roman Empire in the course of the first century A.D. This Penguin Classics version is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant.
Tacitus’ Annals of Imperial Rome recount the key historic occasions from the years shortly earlier than the loss of life of Augustus as much as the loss of life of Nero in AD 68. With readability and vivid depth he describes the reign of terror beneath the corrupt Tiberius, the nice fireplace of Rome in the course of the time of Nero, and the wars, poisonings, scandals, conspiracies and murders that had been a part of imperial life. Regardless of his declare that the Annals had been written objectively, Tacitus’ account is sharply vital of the emperors’ excesses and fearful for the way forward for Imperial Rome, whereas additionally stuffed with a eager for its previous glories.
Michael Grant’s translation vividly captures the emotional patriotism of Tacitus’ ethical tone, offset by a lucid understanding that Rome is doomed, and conveys with cinematic vigour the lives of the nice Emperors who laid the foundations of contemporary Europe.
Tacitus (56-117) studied rhetoric in Rome and rose to eminence as a pleader on the Roman Bar. In 77 he married the daughter of Agricola, conqueror of Britain, of whom he later wrote a biography, Agricola. His different works, all obtainable in Penguin Classics, embody the Germania and the The Histories.
When you loved The Annals of Imperial Rome, you may like Herodotus’ The Histories, additionally obtainable in Penguin Classics.
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