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Tacitus: Histories Book IICambridge Greek and Latin Classics The Histories is the first historical work by Rome's most accomplished and challenging historian, Tacitus. It narrates the brutal civil wars which broke out in AD 689 across the Roman Empire after the suicide of the last Julio Claudian emperor, Nero. Book II covers the bloody finale of the war between two of those emperors, Otho and Vitellius, and the emerging challenge from the eventual victor, Vespasian. The

but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories

the curses of a crazy housekeeper and a horse accident

Pastoral poetry was probably the creation of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus

Perseus and Andromeda

human sacrifice

Beyond Ithaca's shores

studied with Plato at Athens and taught in the Academy (367–347)

Τα βιβλία περιλαμβάνουν την ερμηνεία των πιο δύσκολων λέξεων στα αγγλικά

including a synthesis of recent critical thought

a valuable antidote to the ills of an angry age

When Poseidon commits an unforgiveable act against Medusa in the temple of Athene

this edition will support the new OCR specification for Classical Greek (first teaching 2016)