Alfred J. Church

Complete Works of Tacitus

Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb, Edited, with an Introduction, Moses Hadas

The Annals/The Histories

Cornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. The Annals commence in a.d. 14, at the death of Augustus, recounting the re