The Histories - Oxford World's Classics Author:Tacitus In The Histories Cornelius Tacitus, widely regarded 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. W.H. Fyfe's classic translation has been substantially revised and supplied with extensive... more » historical and literary notes. The Introduction examines the subtleties of Tacitus's writing and gives the necessary political and social background.« less