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Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/137479 Title: Histories Author: Tacitus Narrator: James Adams Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs 11 mins Language: English Release date: 2008-01-24 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Genres: History, Ancient Civilizations Publisher's Summary: Tacitus, a Roman orator and public official, is considered one of the greatest historians as well as one of the greatest prose stylists of the Latin language. In The Histories, he describes and interprets the period in which he lived, beginning with the political situation that followed Nero's death in 69 and ending with the death of Domitian in 96 and the close of the Flavian dynasty. The five books of the history still extant are part of an original work of twelve to fourteen books. The narrative as it now exists, with its magnificent introduction, is a powerfully sustained piece of writing. Because Tacitus was a conscious literary stylist, both his thought and his manner of expressio