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Tacitus Reviewed Sylvia C. Hudgins Quick-reference tables and charts highlightTacitus, writing early in the second century AD, is acknowledged to be ancient Rome's greatest historian; his Annals, describing the emperors from Tiberius to Nero (AD 14 68), is his greatest work. This book gathers together Professor Woodman's writings on Tacitus over the past twenty five years, focusing almost exclusively on the AnnalsR. He starts from, and argues for, the basic premiss that, as a historian, Tacitus must be seen in ancient rather