Annales
The Annals
Tacitus Publius Cornelius Tacitus · c. 56 – c. 120 CE
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A senator's year-by-year history of Rome from Tiberius to Nero, AD 14 to 68, with books 7 to 10 and parts of others lost. Tacitus writes with compression and irony, watching how an aristocracy learned to flatter and how fear worked inside the palace. He is not neutral, but he is exact about the mechanics of power, and his portraits of Tiberius and Nero have lasted.