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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.
Tacitus wrote the Annals in at least 16 books, but books 7–10 and parts of books 5, 6, 11 and 16 are missing. [ 3 ] The period covered by the Histories (written before the Annals ) starts at the beginning of the year AD 69, i.e. six months after the death of Nero and continues to the death of Domitian in 96. [ 3 ]
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 ...
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]
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The Germania begins with a description of the lands, laws, and customs of the Germanic people (chapters 1–27); it then describes individual peoples, beginning with those dwelling closest to Roman lands and ending on the uttermost shores of the Baltic, among the amber-gathering Aesti, the Fenni, and the unknown peoples beyond them.
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Michael Grant (21 November 1914 – 4 October 2004) was an English classicist, a numismatist, and author of numerous books on ancient history. [1] His 1956 translation of Tacitus's Annals of Imperial Rome remains a standard of the work.