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Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION
1. THE LIFE AND WORKS OF TACITUS
2. WHAT TACITUS INHERITED
3. TACITUS ON EMPIRE AND EMPERORS
4. TACITUS AND THE WORLD
5. THE STYLE OF TACITUS: TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
The Annals of Imperial Rome
PART ONE: TIBERIUS
CHAPTER 1: From Augustus to Tiberius
CHAPTER 2: Mutiny on the Frontiers
CHAPTER 3: War with the Germans
CHAPTER 4: The First Treason Trials
CHAPTER 5: The Death of Germanicus
CHAPTER 6: Tiberius and the Senate
CHAPTER 7: ‘Partner of My Labours’
CHAPTER 8: The Reign of Terror
PART TWO: CLAUDIUS AND NERO
CHAPTER 9: The Fall of Messalina
CHAPTER 10: The Mother of Nero
CHAPTER 11: The Fall of Agrippina
CHAPTER 12: Nero and his Helpers
CHAPTER 13: Eastern Settlement
CHAPTER 14: The Burning of Rome
CHAPTER 15: The Plot
CHAPTER 16: Innocent Victims
LIST OF ROMAN EMPERORS
LISTS OF SOME EASTERN MONARCHS
KEY TO TECHNICAL TERMS
KEY TO PLACE-NAMES
GENEALOGICAL TABLES
TABLE 1: The Family of Tiberius
TABLE 2: The Heirs
TABLE 3: The family of Claudius and Nero
TABLE 4: The Aemilian and Junian Families
FURTHER READING
INDEX
INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES
LIST OF MAPS
1. Italy
A. Old Latium
B. Campania
2. North-western Europe
3. Germany
4. Western Anatolia
Inset: South-eastern Anatolia
5. The Middle East
6. North-western Africa
7. Egypt
8. The Balkans
9. South Russia
Plan of Rome
Footnotes
TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION
1. THE LIFE AND WORKS OF TACITUS
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Page 8
2. WHAT TACITUS INHERITED
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Page 14
Page 15
3. TACITUS ON EMPIRE AND EMPERORS
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Page 17
Page 18
Page 19
Page 21
4. TACITUS AND THE WORLD
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Page 24
5. THE STYLE OF TACITUS: TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
Page 26
Page 27
PART ONE: TIBERIUS
CHAPTER 1: From Augustus to Tiberius
Page 31
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Page 42
CHAPTER 2: Mutiny on the Frontiers
Page 44
Page 54
CHAPTER 3: War with the Germans
Page 71
Page 78
Page 81
Page 85
CHAPTER 4: The First Treason Trials
Page 97
Page 99
Page 100
Page 102
Page 103
CHAPTER 5: The Death of Germanicus
Page 104
Page 105
Page 106
Page 110
Page 111
Page 117
Page 120
Page 121
Page 122
Page 125
CHAPTER 6: Tiberius and the Senate
Page 131
Page 133
Page 135
Page 136
Page 145
Page 146
Page 147
Page 148
Page 149
Page 150
Page 152
Page 153
Page 154
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CHAPTER 7: ‘Partner of My Labours’
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Page 186
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Page 192
Page 193
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CHAPTER 8: The Reign of Terror
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Page 212
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PART TWO: CLAUDIUS AND NERO
CHAPTER 9: The Fall of Messalina
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Page 243
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CHAPTER 10: The Mother of Nero
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CHAPTER 11: The Fall of Agrippina
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CHAPTER 12: Nero and his Helpers
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CHAPTER 13: Eastern Settlement
Page 345
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CHAPTER 14: The Burning of Rome
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CHAPTER 15: The Plot
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Page 380
Page 381
CHAPTER 16: Innocent Victims
Page 384
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Page 392
Page 393
Page 394
Page 396
INDEX
INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES
Page 441
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