No. 37 of 200 · Great Authors
117 AD
Major worksAnnals, Histories, Germania, Agricola, Dialogus
The Roman historian famed for his sharp, compressed style and unsparing portraits of the early empire in the Annals and Histories. A keen observer of tyranny, corruption, and the corrosions of power, he wrote with a moral intensity and psychological insight that have made him one of the most admired and quoted of all ancient historians.
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Episodes and essays that touch on Tacitus.
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