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Tacitus

56–120

1 fiction

Tacitus was a Roman historian whose works examine empire, tyranny, public memory and senatorial survival.

Tacitus wrote the Agricola, Germania, Histories and Annals. His historical works cover the Julio-Claudian and Flavian worlds with compressed style, moral severity and close attention to fear, rumour, informers and the psychology of rule.

He belongs in Classical for pages on imperial Rome, Nero, the Year of the Four Emperors, Britain, Germania and senatorial political culture. Many Roman historical novels rely on the darker imperial world he helped define.

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by Tacitus (1 series)

Penguin Classics: Ancient World in Order

by various authors 32 books showing 1 book here 4.6(13,212)

Penguin Classics: Ancient World brings together foundational works of literature, history, philosophy, drama and poetry from the earliest civilisations through classical Greece and Rome. The wider Penguin Classics series began in 1946 with E. V. Rieu’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey, reflecting its original aim of making important texts…