A Companion to Tacitus brings much needed clarity and accessibility to the notoriously difficult language and yet indispensable historical accounts of Tacitus.

Tacitus is universally recognised as ancient Rome's greatest writer of history, and his account of the Roman Empire in the first century AD has been fundamental

An introduction to how the history of Rome was written in the ancient world, and its impact on later periods. It presents essays by an international team of sch

Re-evaluates Tacitus' dialogue about the limits and possibilities of public speech in the Roman Principate.

Traces the five-hundred year history and wide-ranging influence of the Roman historian's unflattering book about the ancient Germans that was eventually extolle