Tacitus

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Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in 55, 56 or 57 CE and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was quaestor in 81 or 82, a senator under the Flavian emperors, and a praetor in 88. After four years' absence he experienced the terrors of Emperor Domitian's last years and turned to historical writing. He was a consul in 97. Close friend of the younger Pliny, with him he successfully prosecuted Mariu…

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Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in 55, 56 or 57 CE and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was quaestor in 81 or 82, a senator under the Flavian emperors, and a praetor in 88. After four years' absence he experienced the terrors of Emperor Domitian's last years and turned to historical writing. He was a consul in 97. Close friend of the younger Pliny, with him he successfully prosecuted Marius Priscus. Tacitus is renowned for his development of a pregnant concise style, character study, and psychological analysis, and for the often terrible story which he brilliantly tells. As a historian of the early Roman empire he is paramount.

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  • Publication Date:1970.

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In Digital Loeb classical library.

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  • oclc:on1132116929
  • LC Classification:PA6156

Table of Contents

1. Agricola / translated by M. Hutton ; revised by R.M. Ogilvie ; Germania / translated by M. Hutton ; revised by E.H. Warmington ; Dialogus / translated by W. Peterson ; revised by M. Winterbottom -- 2. Histories, books i-iii / with an English translation by Clifford H. Moore -- 3. Histories, books iv-v ; Annals, books i-iii / with an English translation by John Jackson -- 4. Annals, books iv-vi, xi-xii / with an English translation by John Jackson -- 5. Annals, books xiii-xvi / with an English translation by John Jackson.

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30 B.C.-96 A.D History Rome -- Histoire -- 30 av. J.-C.-68 (Ju… Rome -- Histoire -- 69-96 (Flaviens) Rome -- History -- Flavians, 69-96 Rome -- History -- Julio-Claudians, 30 … Rome (Empire)

Writers

Tacite Hutton, Maurice Jackson, John Moore, Clifford Herschel Ogilvie, R. M., (Robert Maxwell) Peterson, William Tacite Warmington, E. H., (Eric Herbert) Winterbottom, Michael

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