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Tacitus: The Annals and The Histories

A senator's sharp history of the first emperors, from Tiberius to the year of four emperors.

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Volume
14 of the 1990 set
Author
Tacitus (c. AD 56–c. 120)
Work
The Annals and The Histories c. AD 100–117

Ideas: Power and rulers Telling the past Freedom and its limits

Read it free: search Project Gutenberg for public-domain editions.

A note for parents: Tacitus describes the cruelty of some emperors; summaries for young readers leave out the detail.

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