This Book
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 has been 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
