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Annals

By: Tacitus
Narrated by: David Timson
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Beginning at the end of Augustus' reign, Tacitus's Annals examines the rules of the Roman emperors from Tiberius to Nero (though Caligula's books are lost to us). Their dramas and scandals are brought fully under the spotlight, as Tacitus presents a catalog of their murders, atrocities, sexual improprieties, and other vices in no unsparing terms. Debauched, cruel, and paranoid, they are portrayed as being on the verge of madness. Their wars and battles, such as the war with the Parthians, are also described with the same scrutinizing intensity.

Tacitus' last major historical work, the Annals is an extraordinary glimpse into the pleasures and perils of a Roman leader, and is considered by many to be a masterpiece.

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Public Domain (P)2020 Naxos AudioBooks Ancient Literary History & Criticism Rome Italy
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These histories by ancient Roman historian Tacitus focus on the emperors Tiberius and Nero, surely two of the cruellest tyrants who ever lived, and whose reigns of terrors foretold the horrors of the French and Russian revolutions, particularly those of Stalin's Terror of the 1930s.

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