Tacitus.+Annals

Tacitus served under the Emperor Domitian and eventually turned to historical writing. The Annals, written sometime after AD 112, run from the death of Augustus to the overthrow of Nero. Tacitus is very disapproving of the loss of the republic, describing Rome as "stripped of equality" and claiming "the higher a man's rank, the more eager his hypocrisy" We read this mainly to compare it to Augustus' Res Gestae, since this account is completely different from Augustus' autobiographical account. It shows a different perspective to the reign of Augustus and also allows us to see the viewpoint of someone who missed the old republic