{"product_id":"9780674993457-tacitus","title":"Annals","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBooks 4–6, 11–12\u003cbr\u003eTacitus (ca. AD 55–120) is an essential historian of the early Roman empire. \u003ci\u003eAgricola\u003c\/i\u003e narrates its subject's career in Britain. \u003ci\u003eGermania\u003c\/i\u003e is a description of German tribes as known to the Romans. \u003ci\u003eDialogus\u003c\/i\u003e concerns the decline of oratory and education.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe paramount historian of the early Roman empire.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57  and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter  of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was quaestor in 81  or 82, a senator under the Flavian emperors, and a praetor in 88. After  four years’ absence he experienced the terrors of Emperor Domitian’s  last years and turned to historical writing. He was a consul in 97.  Close friend of the younger Pliny, with him he successfully prosecuted  Marius Priscus. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Works: (i) \u003ci\u003eLife and Character of Agricola,\u003c\/i\u003e written in 97–98, specially interesting because of Agricola’s career in Britain. (ii) \u003ci\u003eGermania\u003c\/i\u003e  (98–99), an equally important description of the geography,  anthropology, products, institutions, and social life and the tribes of  the Germans as known to the Romans. (iii) \u003ci\u003eDialogue on Oratory\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eDialogus\u003c\/i\u003e), of unknown date; a lively conversation about the decline of oratory and education. (iv) \u003ci\u003eHistories\u003c\/i\u003e  (probably issued in parts from 105 onwards), a great work originally  consisting of at least twelve books covering the period AD 69–96, but  only Books 1–4 and part of Book 5 survive, dealing in detail with the  dramatic years 69–70. (v) \u003ci\u003eAnnals,\u003c\/i\u003e Tacitus’s other great work,  originally covering the period AD 14–68 (Emperors Tiberius, Gaius,  Claudius, Nero) and published between 115 and about 120. Of sixteen  books at least, there survive Books 1–4 (covering the years 14–28); a  bit of Book 5 and all Book 6 (31–37); part of Book 11 (from 47); Books  12–15 and part of Book 16 (to 66). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tacitus is renowned for his  development of a pregnant concise style, character study, and  psychological analysis, and for the often terrible story which he  brilliantly tells. As a historian of the early Roman empire he is  paramount. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Loeb Classical Library edition of Tacitus is in five volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39700660060257,"sku":"9780674993457","price":23.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41274030.jpg?v=1779357415","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780674993457-tacitus","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}