The complete historical works of the greatest historian of the Roman empire, in one volume. Born around AD 58, Tacitus served as administrator and senator, a career that gave him an intimate view of the empire at its highest levels. A brilliant narrator and master stylist, he had ample material for his story in the dramatic, violent and often bloody events of the first century. In the Annals he writes about the aftermath of the death of the first emperor, Augustus, fiercely critical of decadence and corruption at the courts of Tiberius, Claudius and Nero. In the Histories he describes an empire in tumult, with four emperors reigning in one year, each overthrown by the next. His portraits are unforgettable, his scene-setting masterly, his psychological analysis as acute as that of any novelist. In addition to Tacitus’s major works, the Everyman edition reprints the Agricola, a short biography of the author’s father-in-law, a distinguished provincial governor – including the first ever detailed description of the British Isles – and the Germania, a fascinating account of the warrior peoples beyond the Rhine. The classic translation by A. J. Church and W. J. Brodribb appears here with notes revised and updated by Eleanor Cowan and an introduction by acclaimed historian Robin Lane Fox.