by Tacitus · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780146001468
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«Nero and the Burning of Rome» is the historical chronicle by Tacitus, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (64 pages, in English).
Tacitus's chronicle of Nero's reign and the fire that devastated Rome in AD 64. The work, drawn from the Annals of imperial Rome, portrays the political intrigues, conspiracies, and figures of the imperial court.
Translation by Michael Grant. Published in 1996 in the Penguin 60s Classics series.
For readers interested in the history of ancient Rome and the classics of Latin literature.
Michael Grant was an English classicist, Professor of Humanity at the University of Edinburgh, numismatist, and author of numerous books on ancient history. His 1956 translation of Tacitus's Annals of Imperial Rome remains a standard of the work. Having studied and held a number of academic posts in the United Kingdom and the Middle East, he retired early to write full-time. He once described himself as "one of the very few freelancers in the field of ancient history: a rare phenomenon". As a populariser, his hallmarks were his prolific output and his unwillingness to oversimplify or talk down to his readership. He published over 70 works.
