Tacitus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus ( TASS-it-s, Latin: [takts]; c.AD 56 c.120) was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars.He lived in what has been called the Silver Age of Latin literature and has a reputation for the brevity and compactness of his Latin prose, as well as for his penetrating insights into the psychology of power politics.The surviving portions of his two major worksthe Annals (Latin: Annales) and the Histories (Latin: Historiae)examine the reigns of the emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors (69 AD). These two works span the history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus, in 14 AD, to 70 AD in the First JewishRoman War of 6673. There are substantial lacunae in the surviving texts, including a gap in the Annals that is four books long.Tacitus’s other writings discuss oratory (in dialogue format, see Dialogus de oratoribus), Germania (in De origine et situ Germanorum), and the life of his father-in-law, Agricola (the general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Britain), mainly focusing on his campaign in Britannia (De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae).Tacitus’s Annals are of interest for providing an early account of the persecution of Christians and the earliest extra-Biblical reference to the crucifixion of Jesus.


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eBooks: A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence | Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus | Tacitus on Germany | Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes 1 and 2 | The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus

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