Tacitus Reviewed

Tacitus is ancient Rome's greatest historian, and the Annals his greatest work. In this book, the author analyses various passages, some of them extremely famous, relating to the emperors Tiberius and Nero. Each of the analyses is unconventional, sometimes radically so. Previous interpretations are shown to be wrong or inadequate, so the results have profound implications for those who wish to use Tacitus as a source for events in the first century AD.