Elizabeth I has been identified as the author of a centuries-old translation of Tacitus's Annales. Topical Press Agency/Getty. While "translator" might not be the first thing that springs to mind ...

In the case of Tacitus' Annals, however, the issue is complicated by the prominence of astrology within the text. Emperors and pretenders to the throne alike are seemingly obsessed with astrology's ...

Book Description: Books V and VI of Tacitus' Annals, when complete, carried the narrative of Tiberius' reign from AD 29 to 37. Unfortunately most of Book V has been lost, and, with it, Tacitus' ...

A late 16th century translation of the Roman historian Tacitus, which has languished in the library of Lambeth Palace for hundreds of years, was written by Elizabeth I, a historian has discovered.

A 16th Century translation of the first book of Tacitus’s Annals - written in elegant italic hand on ruled paper - has been shown to be Elizabeth's after an analysis of handwriting, her style of ...

Tacitus — our first modern reporter — wrote that his goal was to record “a mere few things about Augustus and his final period, then of Tiberius’ principate … without anger (or) partiality.” (All ...

The sheer fakeness of elite life under this system—a disguised monarchy combined with military rule, in which an aristocratic oligarchy kept up the rituals of republican government—is one of the great ...

Drawing on a three-paragraph anecdote in Tacitus' "Annals of Imperial Rome," novelist and translator Jesse Browner riffs alongside history, imbuing Petronius' final night with vigor and humanity.