Histories: Books 4-5. Annals: Books 1-3

by Tacitus

Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in 55, 56 or 57 CE 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 writing. He was a consul in 97. Close friend of the younger...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B003A85TXC
• ISBN13: 9780674992740
• Release Date: January 1931
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.6" x 6.1"