A HISTORICAL COMMENTARY ON TACITUS' HISTORIES IV AND V (4 & 5)

Very Minor shelfwear to DJ. DJ is discolored. Minor shelfwear otherwise to DJ.; Deals with the last few days of A. D. 69 after the death of Vitellius, the outbreak of the revolt on the Rhine, and events of the early months of A. D. 70 in Rome, German and the East, where Vespasian, now supreme master of the Empire, was preparing his return to Rome. Tactius displays his mastery in recounting not only senatorial debates in the capital but also the complexities of the war on the Rhine, in which Roman legions were demoralised and virtually destroyed before the new government was able to send fresh troops to restore the situation. Book V also contains Tacitus' curious account of the history and the country of the Jews, breakin off just before the destruction of Jerusalem.; 124 pages.