Described as the best that Tacitus ever wrote, the fourth book of his Annals covers the years AD 23-28, when
Tacitus noted deterioration in the principate of the emperor Tiberius and the increasingly malign influence of
his evil genius Sejanus.
Table of Contents
Cornelius Tacitus : from the passing of divine Augustus
Books 1-6 : Tiberius
Books 11-12 : Claudius
Books 13-16 : Nero
Appendix A Political and military terms
Appendix B The first-century A.D. Roman army and the Annals
Appendix C The city of Rome
Appendix D Peoples and places (excluding Rome)
Appendix E Textual variants
Appendix F Roman emperors from Augustus to Hadrian
Appendix G The Imperial Family
Stemma (a) : Augustus and Tiberius
Stemma (b) : Gaius, Claudius, and Nero
