Complete Works of Tacitus

tacitus alfred j. church william jackson brodribb moses hadas

Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb, Edited, with an Introduction, Moses Hadas

Genres historyclassicsnonfictionromanancient historyphilosophyancientreferencehistoricalpolitics

773 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,0120

This edition

Format: 773 pages, Paperback
Published: September 1, 1964 by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
ISBN: 9780075536390
ASIN: 0075536390
Language: English

About the author

tacitus

Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (ca. AD 56 – ca. AD 120) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories—examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors. These two works span the history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus in AD 14 to the years of the First Jewish–Roman War, in 70 AD. There are enormous lacunae in the surviving texts, including one four books long in the Annals.

Other works by Tacitus discuss oratory (in dialogue format, see Dialogus de oratoribus), Germania (in De origine et situ Germanorum), and biographical notes about his father-in-law Agricola, primarily during his campaign in Britannia (see De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae).

Tacitus was an author writing in the latter part of the Silver Age of Latin literature.