Tacitus

The fourth book of the Annals of <strong>Tacitus</strong> has been described as the best that Tacitus ever wrote, and it covers the years AD 23-28, beginning at... » 

The fourth book of the Annals of Tacitus has been described as the best that Tacitus ever wrote, and it covers the years AD 23-28, beginning at the point where he noted a significant deterioration in the principate of the emperor Tiberius, and the increasingly malign influence of Sejanus. «