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Tacitus: Histories Book ICambridge Greek and Latin Classics The first historical work by Rome's greatest historian, Tacitus' Histories hold a crucial place in the history of Latin literature. Book I covers the beginning of the infamous 'Year of the Four Emperors' (69 CE), which brought imperial Rome to the brink of destruction after the demise of the Julio Claudian dynasty. Galba, Otho, and Vitellius ride the currents of senatorial politics and military sedition to power,

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Livy's Ab urbe condita Book XXII narrates Hannibal's massive defeats of the Romans at Trasimene (217 BC) and Cannae (216 BC)

The natural state of mankind

And does might always make right

Book IV: 29–40Plato

and elucidates grammatical peculiarities and passages of unusual difficulty

he falls dead from a gunshot in another part of the building

makes a major contribution to the understanding of this extraordinary poetic form

among other episodes

where he died the following year

The first playwright to depict suffering without reference to the gods