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The Histories
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W.H.Fyfe translation w/ edits and revisions by D.S.Levine (shoutout NYU Classics dept.) Great translation and edition.
My least favorite of Tacitus' work, though it opens with a bang. I was initially bummed by his description of the Jews, (though ancient authors often disparage many different peoples in an anthropological way) but in describing our depravities he makes us sound absolutely metal:
"Thus they think much of having children and nothing of facing death."
My least favorite of Tacitus' work, though it opens with a bang. I was initially bummed by his description of the Jews, (though ancient authors often disparage many different peoples in an anthropological way) but in describing our depravities he makes us sound absolutely metal:
"Thus they think much of having children and nothing of facing death."
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