A review by njsmith91
The Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus
5.0
Just the fact that, through reading this, I am reading an ancient historians take on his own history is remarkable to me. Stephen King called writing telepathy because it could transmit one idea from a point in time to any point of time in the future, and books like this only emphasise the beauty of that quote.
It goes through most of the 1st century AD in the newly designed Imperial Rome. It's a bit amusing when Tacitus says this would be written “without rancour or bias” - you will find it clearly is, so there are some things you must question. He didn't like Tiberius, for example, and that shines through. Regardless, immensely interesting.
It goes through most of the 1st century AD in the newly designed Imperial Rome. It's a bit amusing when Tacitus says this would be written “without rancour or bias” - you will find it clearly is, so there are some things you must question. He didn't like Tiberius, for example, and that shines through. Regardless, immensely interesting.