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 ...

Nero was one of the Roman Empire's most notorious emperors. And his role in the fire of Rome remains a controversial aspect ...

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 ...

The Annals, written by the Roman historian Tacitus only 91 years after Jesus's death, begins with the death of Emperor Augustus in 14AD and finishes with Nero's suicide 54 years later.

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, ...

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 ...

Elizabeth I has been identified as the author of a centuries-old translation of Tacitus's Annales. Topical Press Agency/Getty. While "translator" might not be the first thing that springs to mind ...

Tacitus, a historian of the Roman Empire, casts Tiberius and Nero as tyrants and relates the debauchery and corruption of the empire's rulers.