| Product Summary | | Format: Audio Book | | ISBN: 9781433212550 | | Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks | | Publish Date: 5/12/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 208081384 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 6.25H x 6.5L x 1T |
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| | | Tacitus, a Roman orator and public official, describes and interprets his own period, beginning with the political tumult following Neros death in a.d. 69 and ending at the close of the Flavian dynasty thirty years later.
| Author Bio| Cornelius Tacitus | | Like many Roman historians, Tacitus had a career in public service before retiring to write history. Tacitus served as a governor of a province under the cruel emperor Domitian. He was also an orator, well-known and respected in his time, and served as prosecutor. One of Tacitus's early works was AGRICOLA, a study of the governor of Britain, who was his father-in- law. Important as early British history, it is a study of the island and its people. A second work was DE ORIGINE ET SITU GERMANORUM, on the Germans. Both books, though flawed and propagandistic, can be read as ethnographic accounts of their day. Perhaps his major work, written after 100 A.D. is his HISTORIES, which cover the years 14 through 69 A.D. This and another important work, ANNALS, are what remain, if only in fragments. In these works, he writes on major events, such as the civil wars, and major personalities such as Nero, Caligula and Domitian. It was clear that the greater glories of the Roman republic were past, and Tacitus recorded the harm he saw in autocratic rule. But he has been called a first-rate rhetorician. |
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