"Annals" by Tacitus

"The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government."
--from "Annals" by Tacitus

The complete historical works of the greatest chronicler of the Roman Empire in a wholly revised and updated translation. A brilliant narrator and a master stylist, Tacitus served as administrator and senator, a career that gave him an intimate view of the empire at its highest levels, and of the dramatic, violent, and often bloody events of the first century. In the Annals, he writes ab⋯⋯