The complete historical works of the greatest chronicler of the Roman Empire in a wholly revised and updated translation.<br><br>A brilliant narrator and a master stylist, Tacitus served as administrator and senator, a career that gave him an intimate view of the empire at its highest levels, and of the dramatic, violent, and often bloody events of the first century. In the <i>Annals, </i>he writes about Augustus Caesar's death and observes the inner workings of the courts of the emperors Tiberius and Nero. In the <i>Histories, </i>he describes an empire in tumult, four emperors reigning in one year, each overthrown by the next. The <i>Agricola, </i>a biography of Tacitus's father-in-law, Julius Agricola—the most celebrated governor of Roman Britain—is the first detailed account of the island that would eventually rule over a quarter of the earth. And in the <i>Germania, </i>the famed warrior-barbarians of ancient Germany come richly to life.