Guide to the classics: Tacitus' Annals and its enduring portrait of monarchical power
- Written by Caillan Davenport, Senior Lecturer in Roman History, Macquarie University
The death of popular prince Germanicus painted by Nicolas Poussin in 1627.Senex Magister/flickr
Sometime in the 9th century AD, a monk in the Benedictine monastery of Fulda in modern Germany copied out an extensive Latin history into Carolingian minuscule, a script promoted by the emperor Charlemagne to aid in the reading and comprehension of...
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