@article{446884, author = {Mellor, Ronald.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/446884}, title = {Tacitus' annals [electronic resource] /}, publisher = {Oxford University Press,}, abstract = {Tacitus' Annals is the central historical source for first-century C.E. Rome. It is prized by historians since it provides the best narrative material for the reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero, as well as a probing analysis of the imperial system of government. But the Annals should be seen as far more than an historical source, a mere mine for the reconstruction of the facts of Roman history. While the Annals is a superb work of history, it has also become a central text in the western literary, political, and even philosophical traditions - from the Renaissance to the French and America.}, recid = {446884}, pages = {1 online resource (xiv, 255 p.)}, address = {Oxford ;}, year = {2010}, }