Tacitus

====The ''Histories''====
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In an early chapter of the ''Agricola'', Tacitus asserts that he wishes to speak about the years of Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. In the ''Histories'' the scope has changed; Tacitus says that he will deal with the age of Nerva and Trajan at a later time. Instead, he will cover the period from the civil wars of the [[Year of the Four Emperors]] and end with the despotism of the [[Flavian dynasty|Flavians]]. Only the first four books and twenty-six chapters of the fifth book survive, covering the year 69 and the first part of 70. The work is believed to have continued up to the death of Domitian on September 18, 96. The fifth book contains—as a prelude to the account of Titus's suppression of the [[First Jewish–Roman War]]—a short [[ethnography|ethnographic]] survey of the ancient [[Jews]], and it is an invaluable record of Roman attitudes towards them.