Tacitus
c. 56-120
Roman historian and official whose works include Germania (A.D. 98), one of the few contemporary accounts of the Germans and Britons. Also important were his Histories (c. 109) and A...
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Biography EssayCornelius Tacitus was perhaps the greatest historian that the Roman world produced. Though his Annales (Annals, after A.D. 116) and Historiae (Histories, ca. A.D. 100-110) are among ...
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Tacitus (c. 56/57-ca. 125) was a Roman orator and historian. In a life that spanned the reigns of the Flavian emperors and of Trajan and Hadrian, he played a part in the public life of Rome and became...
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Cornelius Tacitus was perhaps the greatest historian that the Roman world produced. Though his Annales (Annals, after A.D. 116) and Historiae (Histories, ca. A.D. 100-110) are among the most remarkabl...
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In the following excerpt, Woodman suggests that Tacitus is better read as a poet than a traditional historian.
It was on the last Monday in January exactly fifty years ago that Adolf Hitler became ...
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In the following essay, Hadas discusses Tacitus's life, career, and artistry and evaluates his trustworthiness as an historian.
The apparent insensitivity of the Romans to their greatest his...
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In the following essay, originally delivered as a lecture in 1952, Syme discusses Tacitus's treatment of the problems posed to Rome by Gaul.
Tacitus on Gaul. The title seems paradoxical, for...
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In the following excerpt, Syme analyzes Tacitus's handling of such literary devices as digressions and speeches, praising his skill in portraying assorted Roman orators as individuals.
The Te...
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In the following essay, Goodyear explores Tacitus's complex narrative layout and arrangement of historical events, investigating the argument that many of his reports are unreliable.
Various...
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In the following essay, Benario examines the themes of the Agricola, the Germania, and the Dialogus de oratoribus.
Early in 98, Tacitus published his first work. It was a biography of his father-in...
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In the following excerpt, Mellor presents a survey of readers’ responses to Tacitus over the last five centuries.
Your histories will be immortal
Pliny Letter (7, 33) to Tacitus
Thoug...
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In the following essay, Grant examines the tradition of historiography that preceded Tacitus, his moral sense and how it influenced his writing, and the difficulties a translator faces in trying to do...
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To the Editor:
Re “The Rudy Doctrine: Does World View Go Beyond Bronx?” [July 16]:
For all of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s calculated ambiguity regarding the war in Iraq, there ...
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Today is Sunday, May 20, the 140th day of 2007. There are 225 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On May 20, 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Garden City, N.Y...
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Archaeologists in the Netherlands have uncovered what they believe is part of the military road Roman soldiers patrolled nearly 2,000 years ago while guarding against hostile Germanic tribes at the...
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Politics makes strange bedfellows. Everyone knows that. This campaign makes for strange bed-hopping. (How post-modern.) Hillary haters find themselves cheering Sen. Ted Kennedy to rally Democrats b...
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John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics, by Richard Parker. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 820 pages, $35.I've heard just about enough from the founding fathers. Over the last dec...
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