Histories: Books 1-3 [Latin]

by Tacitus and Peter Jones

The paramount historian of the early Roman empire.

Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was quaestor in 81 or 82, a senator under the Flavian emperors, and a praetor in 88. After four years' absence he experienced the terrors of Emperor Domitian's last years and turned to historical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Latin
• ISBN: 0674991230
• ISBN13: 9780674991231
• Release Date: January 1925
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.5" x 6.7"