For a man who delved into the lives of others, not all that much is known about the life of Cornelius Tacitus, historian of Rome under the empire. He was born in 56 or 57 a.d. and is thought to ...

The manuscript, preserved in the Lambeth Palace library is a Latin-to-English translation of Annales - a history by Tacitus of the Roman Empire from the reign of Tiberius to Nero, AD 14-68.

Tacitus issues a similar, albeit more veiled, rebuke in The Annals when commenting on the political opposition of the stoic senator Thrasea Paetus under Nero’s rule. The historian coldly observes that ...

Jewish historian Josephus, a contemporary of Tacitus, wrote: "Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to die. But those who had become his disciples did not abandon his discipleship." ...

But Christopher B. Krebs, a classics professor at Harvard, makes a strong case that an early ethnological monograph, written in the first century in Latin by the Roman historian Tacitus, may have ...

A late 16th century translation of the Roman historian Tacitus, which has languished in the library of Lambeth Palace for hundreds of years, was written by Elizabeth I, ...

Art historian Eric Varner says “It seems unlikely that Nero would have started the great fire of AD 64, ... Tacitus states that the fire was driven by a southeasterly wind.

The Annals by Tacitus, composed just 91 years after the death of Jesus, provide according to some invaluable data about his crucifixion and the early persecution of Christians.