The Histories

P. Cornelius Tacitus

Original title: Historiae

earliest edition we have, 1931 Société d'édition "Les Belles Lettres", 1987

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Edward Gibbon called The Histories an 'immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the deepest observations and the most lively images.' Its author, Cornelius Tacitus, widely acknowledged as the greatest of all Roman historians, describes with cynical power the murderous 'Year of the Four Emperors' - AD 69 - when in just a few months the whole of the Roman Empire was torn apart by civil war. The ultimate...

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This book in English

Kenneth Wellesley 1 printing we hold · 1972 · Penguin
W. H. Fyfe 1 printing we hold · 2001 · Oxford University Press, USA
W. Hamilton Fyfe 1 printing we hold · 2007 · Dodo Press

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Editions we hold

The Histories (Classic Collection) audiobook · 2008 · Blackstone Audio, Inc. · 9781433212581
The Histories (Classic Collection) audiobook · 2008 · Blackstone Audio, Inc. · 8 pages · 9781433212574
The histories edition · 2008 · Oxford University Press · 310 pages · 9780199540709
The Histories (Classic Collection) audiobook · 2008 · Blackstone Audio, Inc. · 9781433212567
Histories paperback · 2007 · ReadHowYouWant.com · 552 pages · 9781425072087
The Histories (Dodo Press) paperback · 2007 · Dodo Press · 320 pages · 9781406548556
Histories paperback · 2006 · www.ReadHowYouWant.com · 520 pages · 9781425024383
Histories. edition · 2003 · Cambridge University Press · 324 pages
The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) edition · 2001 · Oxford University Press, USA · 368 pages · 9780192839589
The Histories audiobook · 2001 · Blackstone Audiobooks · 9780786120048
The histories edition · 1997 · Oxford University Press · 310 pages
Histoires edition · 1987 · Société d'édition "Les Belles Lettres"

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