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The Histories - Tacite, and Wellesley, Kenneth (Translated by), and Ash, Rhiannon (Introduction by)
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In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, though not of chaos. In the surviving books of his Histories the barrister-historian Tacitus, writing some thirty years after the events he describes, gives us a detailed account based on excellent authorities. In the 'long but single year' of revolution four emperors emerge in succession: Galba, Otho, Vitellius and Vespasian - who established the Flavian dynasty. Rhiannon Ash stays true to the spirit ...

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The Histories 2009, Penguin Group, London, England

ISBN-13: 9780140449648

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