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Publius Cornelius Tacitus, [note 1] known simply as Tacitus (/ ˈ t æ s ɪ t ə s / TAS-it-əs, [2] [3] Latin: [ˈtakɪtʊs]; 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.
First page of books XI–XVI of Tacitus' Annals (Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, ca. 1471/72) The Annals (Latin: Annales) by Roman historian and senator Tacitus [1] is a history of the Roman Empire from the reign of Tiberius to that of Nero, the years AD 14–68. [2]
Tacitus's contemporaries were well-acquainted with his work; Pliny the Younger, one of his first admirers, congratulated him for his better-than-usual precision and predicted that his Histories would be immortal: only a third of his known work has survived and then through a very tenuous textual tradition; we depend on a single manuscript for books I–VI of the Annales and on another one for ...
Tacitus suggested that Nero used the Christians as scapegoats. [17] As with almost all ancient Greek and Latin literature, [18] no original manuscripts of the Annals exist. The surviving copies of Tacitus' major works derive from two principal manuscripts, known as the Medicean manuscripts, which are held in the Laurentian Library in Florence ...
First page of the Histories in its first printed edition. Histories (Latin: Historiae) is a Roman historical chronicle by Tacitus.Written c. 100–110, its complete form covered c. 69–96, a period which includes the Year of Four Emperors following the downfall of Nero, as well as the period between the rise of the Flavian dynasty under Vespasian and the death of Domitian. [1]
Pages in category "Works by Tacitus" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Germania (book) H. Histories (Tacitus) This page was ...
Like the Histories, parts of the Annales are lost: most of book 5, books 7–10, part of book 11, and everything after the middle of 16. Tacitus' familiar invective is also present in this work. Tacitus' style is very much like that of Sallust. Short, sharp phrases cut right to the point, and Tacitus makes no bones about conveying his point.
Pages in category "Tacitus" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...