The Histories
Tacitus author Kenneth Wellesley translator Rhiannon Ash editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:25th Jun '09
£12.99
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In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, though not of chaos.
In the surviving books of his Histories the barrister-historian Tacitus, writing some thirty years after the events he describes, gives us a detailed account based on excellent authorities. In the 'long but single year' of revolution four emperors emerge in succession: Galba, Otho, Vitellius and Vespasian - who established the Flavian dynasty.
Rhiannon Ash stays true to the spirit of Wellesley's prose whilst making the translation more accessible to modern readers.
ISBN: 9780140449648
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 22mm
Weight: 281g
384 pages