Author: Team Uber

Rarely had Monk thought that, an entire lifetime after gaining an A level in classical history, he would ever have to dig out my well-thumbed, almost disintegrating 50-year old Penguin Classics edition of Tacitus in order to discuss the merits of a heavy metal album; but time has a weird way of turning its wheel back on itself, and so here we are… cogitating upon the most turbulent year in the annals of the empire once known as Rome and this musical recreation and recollection some two millennia later.