Cornelii Taciti Annalium

Cornelius Tacitus: Publius (Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus was born in 56 A.D., either in Gallia cisalpina or in Gallia Narbonensis. His Annals deal with the period from the death of Augustus in A.D. 14 to the end of Nero's reign in A.D. 68. The Annals originally comprised at least 16 books, but some of them are lost. Tacitus grew up in a comfortable environment, and he studied rhetorics in Rome. Due to...