Tacitus
Sign in to savePublius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus ( , ; – ), was a Roman historian and politician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars.
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Tacitus was a Roman historian and politician who lived in the early imperial period and is considered one of the greatest Roman historians of all time. His works are valued by modern scholars as important sources for understanding Roman history and the society of his era.
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- 0054-00-00
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- 0120-00-00
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26 sectionsContents
- Life
- Family and early life
- Public life, marriage, and literary career
- Works
- History of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus
- The ''Histories''
- The ''Annals''
- Monographs
- ''Germania''
- ''Agricola'' (''De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae'')
- ''Dialogus''
- Literary style
- Approach to history
- Prose
- Sources
- Influence
- Editions
- Teubner
- Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
- Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Citations
- Bibliography
- External links
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus ( , ; – ), was a Roman historian and politician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars.
His two major historical works, Annals (Latin: ) and the Histories (Latin: ), originally formed a continuous narrative of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus (14 AD) to the end of Domitian's reign (96 AD). The surviving portions of the Annals focus on the reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors (69 AD).