Tacitus Summary

Everything you need to understand or teach Tacitus.

Download the Study Guide

3 Biographies
1 Encyclopedia Article
8 Literature Criticisms
...and more

Study Pack

The Tacitus Study Pack contains:

Encyclopedia Articles (1)

Tacitus

96 words, approx. 1 pages

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... Read more

Biographies (3)

Tacitus

1,411 words, approx. 5 pages

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... Read more

Tacitus

4,836 words, approx. 17 pages

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... Read more

Tacitus

5,125 words, approx. 18 pages

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 ... Read more