Here is a lively new translation of Cornelius Tacitus\' timeless history of three of Rome\'s most memorable emperors.
In particular, his gripping account of the bloody Reigns of Tiberius and Nero brims with plots, murder, poisoning, suicide, uprisings, death, and destr.
Tacitus, who condemns the depravity of these rulers, which he saw as proof of the corrupting force of absolute power, writes caustically of the brutal and lecherous Tiberius, the weak and cuckolded Claudius, and ``the artist`` Nero.
Here is a lively new translation of Cornelius Tacitus\' timeless history of three of Rome\'s most memorable emperors