An important point of departure for studies in early Roman history.

An important point of departure for studies in early Roman history.

Described as the "best that Tacitus ever wrote", the fourth book of his Annals covers the years AD 23-28, when Tacitus noted deterioration in the principate of

This book combines a critical survey of the ancient sources for Ennius' Annales with fresh interpretation of the surviving record.

By the third century BC, the once-modest settlement of Rome had conquered most of Italy and was poised to build an empire throughout the Mediterranean basin. Wh