Year of the Four Emperors

A welcome reissue of Kenneth Wellesley's classic study, this is the only book to tackle this crucial period in detail and will appeal to scholars, students and the general reader alike.

Author: Kenneth Wellesley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 07/20/2000
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.18w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780415236201

About the Author

Kenneth Wellesley taught in the Department of Humanity (Latin) at the University of Edinburgh from 1949 until his retirement in 1981. A contributor to many classical periodicals, he is best known as a Tacitean scholar: he translated the Histories for the Penguin Classics series and edited both the Histories and part of the Annales for the Teubner Library. Barbara Levick was Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at St. Hilda's College, Oxford. Her published works include biographies of Tiberius (Routledge Pb 1999), Vespasian (Routledge 1999) and Claudius (1993), as well as a sourcebook on The Government of the Roman Empire (Routledge 2000)