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, a Roman historian and politician, known for his work “Histories”, gave a vividly moral account of the events that transpired in Rome in 69 AD; when fearing a revolution against him ...

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 ...

Most of the historical evidence for Nero persecuting Christians comes to us from the writings of the Roman historian Tacitus, who wrote between 115-120 CE, at least fifty years after the events he ...

In a letter dated Feb. 3, 1812, retired President John Adams wrote to fellow retiree Thomas Jefferson about Tacitus and his fellow historian, Thucydides.

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, ...

Those who study German culture, as I do, usually get their first account of the early Germanic peoples from the Roman historian Tacitus, who wrote a short treatise entitled Germania in the first ...

In his study of the Roman historian Sallust (86-35 B.C.), ... Syme wrote biographies of Sallust and Tacitus and much else, but his reputation rests on “The Roman Revolution.” ...