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What it's about
The first six books of Tacitus' Annals, covering Rome under Tiberius from the death of Augustus in AD 14 to Tiberius' own death in 37: the mutinies on the frontiers, the career and death of Germanicus, the rise and fall of Sejanus, and the treason trials. Most of Book V is lost. In Thomas Gordon's eighteenth-century translation.
Reading plan
Pick a finish date and Genius lays out the days — the plan shows today's target and keeps you honest.
Read together
Start a circle and share the code — everyone sees everyone's honest place in the book. Accountability, not leaderboards.
Who it's for
- Readers interested in power, flattery and fear at an imperial court - Anyone who wants Rome's greatest historian at full length - Students of the early Roman Empire
