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Author Tacitus, Cornelius.

Title Annals Histories Agricola Germania / translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb; with an introduction by Robin Lane Fox ; notes revised by Eleanor Cowan.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, [2009]
©2009

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  878 TACITUS    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  878.01 T11A    Check Shelf
Edition Everyman's Library edition.
Description xxxiv, 850 pages : genealogical tables, maps ; 22 cm.
Series Everyman's library ; 311
Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 311.
Note "A Borzoi book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Select bibliography -- Chronological summary (Annals) -- Genealogical tables -- Annals of Tacitus -- History of Tacitus -- Life of Cnæus Julius Agricola -- Germany and its tribes -- Notes -- Maps -- Index.
Summary 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.
Subject Tacitus, Cornelius -- Translations into English.
History -- Civil War, 68-69.
Rome (Italy) -- History.
Rome -- History -- Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D.
Rome -- History -- Flavians, 69-96.
Added Author Church, Alfred John, 1829-1912.
Brodribb, William Jackson, 1829-1905.
Fox, Robin.
Cowan, Eleanor (Eleanor Rachel)
Added Title Annales. English
Spine Title Tacitus : Annals and Histories
Added Title Annals and Histories
ISBN 9780307267504 cloth
0307267504 cloth
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