The Histories

by Tacitus; Fyfe, W. H.; Levene, David

• ISBN13: 9780192831583
• ISBN10: 0192831585
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In The Histories Cornelius Tacitus, widely regarded as the greatest of all Roman historians, describes with cynical power the murderous year of the Four Emperors'--AD 69--when in just a few months the whole of the Roman Empire was torn apart by civil war. W.H. Fyfe's classic translation hasbeen substantially revised and supplied with extensive historical and literary notes. The Introduction examines the subtleties of Tacitus's writing and gives the necessary political and social background.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii	(16)
Translator's Note	xxiii	(2)
Note on the Imperial Roman State	xxv	(4)
Note on Roman Names	xxix	(2)
Note on the Text	xxxi	(3)
Select Bibliography	xxxiv	(3)
Chronology of the Life of Tacitus and the Period of the Histories	xxxvii	(6)
Maps	xliii
THE HISTORIES	I	(249)
BOOK ONE	3	(56)
BOOK TWO	59	(58)
BOOK THREE	117	(54)
BOOK FOUR	171	(62)
BOOK FIVE	233	(17)
Explanatory Notes	250	(43)
Glossary of Place-Names	293	(2)
Index	295