The histories
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The histories
(Penguin classics)
Penguin Books, 2009
[Rev. ed.] / revised with a new introduction by Rhiannon Ash
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Translated from the Latin
"This translation first published 1964 ... This revised edition first published in Penguin Classics 2009"--T.p. verso
Chronology: p. [vii]-xiv
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxv]-xli) and index
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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.
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