Tacitus: The Histories (Volume I)

Tacitus' The Histories delivers a ruthless portrait of imperial Rome. History stripped to its core. A roman history classic and an essential ancient history book, this historical narrative collection confronts the civil wars of Rome and the unsettled politics of first-century Rome during the Flavian dynasty era. Tacitus writes with terse, forensic clarity: compressed clauses and sharp moral observation expose ambition, betrayal and the mechanisms of power. He treats speeches, deeds and afte...