Tacitus brief biography of marks
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Life of Tacitus
From Stuart, Duane Reed. 1909. Tacitus: The Agricola. New York: Macmillan. Pp. ix-xiv.
The books of Tacitus show vividly what manner of man he was. The works of no other ancient historian are so impregnated with the author's personality. By reading the writings of Tacitus between the lines it is easy to find out what he thought of the world in which he lived, what his convictions and what his prejudices were.
On the other hand, the information that he gives us directly about his life is very meager. No biography of Tacitus has come down to us from ancient times. It is possible, therefore, to reconstruct his career only in a bare outline in which much rests upon conjecture and surmise.
According to the more reliable tradition our author's full name was Publius Cornelius Tacitus. The year of his birth was probably 55 A.D. His boyhood thus coincided closely with the reign of Nero, 54-68 A.D. We do not know whether Tacitus was a native of Rome or whe
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Tacitus
Roman historian and senator (56–120)
For the emperor, see Tacitus (emperor). For other uses, see Tacitus (disambiguation).
Publius Cornelius Tacitus,[note 1] known simply as Tacitus (TAS-it-əs,[2][3]Latin:[ˈtakɪtʊs]; c. AD 56 – c. 120), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars.[4][5]
The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals (Latin: Annales) and the Histories (Latin: Historiae)—examine the reigns of the emperorsTiberius, Claudius, Nero, and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors (69 AD).[6] These two works span the history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus (14 AD) to the death of Domitian (96 AD), although there are substantial lacunae in the surviving texts.
Tacitus's other writings discuss oratory (in dialogue format, see Dialogus de or
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Tacitus
Tacitus (c.55-c.120): långnovell historian, author of a/o the Histories and the Annals.
Early Career
Tacitus was born in c.55, perhaps in southern Gaul. His father was a wealthy man and belonged to the second tier of the Roman elite, the knights, or - to use a more stately expression - the equestrian beställning. The ung man was sent to Rome to study what is called rhetorics, which is not just the art of speaking in public, but in fact a grand cultural education that included everything a magistrate needed to know.
The gods years of the reign of Nero must have impressed the student. There were several conspiracies to remove the eccentric, increasingly tyrannical emperor; Rome itself was still suffering from the big fire that had destroyed the city in 64; and in the end, the civil war known as the Year of the fyra Emperors (69) broke out, culminating in the accession of Vespasian. These events may explain Tacitus' gloomy world view: he knew what it meant when government