Victoria Emma Pagan is Professor of Classics at the University of Florida. The editor of A Companion to Tacitus (2011), she is in addition the author of Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History (2005) and of Rome and the Literature of Gardens (2007).

This compact, refreshing, and ambitious study is an accomplished addition to the growing ‘stable’ of volumes in the Understanding Classics series ... A stimulating synthesis of Tacitus’ writings which will have much to offer to specialists and general readers alike.

Victoria Emma Pagan is Professor of Classics at the University of Florida. The editor of A Companion to Tacitus (2011), she is in addition the author of Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History (2005) and of Rome and the Literature of Gardens (2007).

This compact, refreshing, and ambitious study is an accomplished addition to the growing ‘stable’ of volumes in the Understanding Classics series ... A stimulating synthesis of Tacitus’ writings which will have much to offer to specialists and general readers alike.

Victoria Emma Pagan is Professor of Classics at the University of Florida. The editor of A Companion to Tacitus (2011), she is in addition the author of Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History (2005) and of Rome and the Literature of Gardens (2007).

This compact, refreshing, and ambitious study is an accomplished addition to the growing ‘stable’ of volumes in the Understanding Classics series ... A stimulating synthesis of Tacitus’ writings which will have much to offer to specialists and general readers alike.