Tacitus The Histories - Vol.1&2
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Chennai: Maven Books, ©2023.Description: 132p.: illISBN:- 9789388694902
- 23rd 870 TAC
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Text Books | CUTN Central Library History & Geography | Fiction | 870 TAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 46035 |
Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in 55, 56 or 57 CE and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was quaestor in 81 or 82, a senator under the Flavian emperors, and a praetor in 88. After four years' absence he experienced the terrors of Emperor Domitian's last years and turned to historical writing. He was a consul in 97. Close friend of the younger Pliny, with him he successfully prosecuted Marius Priscus. Tacitus is renowned for his development of a pregnant concise style, character study, and psychological analysis, and for the often terrible story which he brilliantly tells. As a historian of the early Roman empire he is paramount
Book : 1
# The State of The Empire
# Galba's position
# The Rise of Otho
# Dramastis Personae
# Otho's Plans
Book II
# Vespasian and the East
# Otho's Measues of Defence
# Vitelliu's Principate
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