Representative selections from the work of Tacitus, chosen to represent the entire existing corpus of Tacitus: Annales, Historiae, Germania, Agricola, and Dialogus. The reading selections are supplemented by an introduction that situates Tacitus as a historical and as a literary figure, a grammatical and historical commentary on the Latin passages, and a complete end vocabulary.

Steven H. Rutledge is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He earned his BA in Latin and Ancient Greek at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and his PhD in Classics at Brown University. He is the author of Imperial Inquisitions: Prosecutors and Informants from Tiberius to Domitian (London 2001) and is also the author of numerous articles on Roman literature and culture. He is currently at work on a monograph entitled Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting (forthcoming, Oxford 2010).