Tacitus Publius Cornelius

Annals

Narrative history of Roman emperors from Tiberius through early empire

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Tacitus Publius Cornelius

The greatest of Roman historians, Tacitus wrote the Annals and Histories covering the early imperial period with savage irony and psychological penetration. His portraits of Tiberius, Nero, and Domitian are unsurpassed character studies. His style—compressed, epigrammatic—influenced Machiavelli and Montaigne.

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