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	ooBdoo
		Tacitus used the official sources of the Roman state: the acta senatus (the minutes of the session of the Senate) and the acta diurna populi Romani (a collection of the acts of the government and news of the court and capital).
		Tacitus' political career was largely spent under the emperor Domitian; his experience of the tyranny, corruption, and decadence prevalent in the era (81–96) may explain his bitter and ironic political analysis.
		Tacitus is remembered first and foremost as Rome's greatest historian, the equal—if not the superior—of Thucydides, the ancient Greeks' foremost historian; the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica opined that he "ranks beyond dispute in the highest place among men of letters of all ages".
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=Tacitus (4505 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.05.21
		But it is clear that not only does Tacitus distinguish these two forces from one another and their successors, he also takes the opportunity to raise some uncomfortable questions about the need for, and role of, a stronger general and to examine the place for effective officers.
		Tacitus' response is then tackled: the paradox of Vitellius' low-key appearance in contrast with the role he plays in destroying Rome is highlighted as part of a strategy of emphasising Vitellius' impotence.
		(1984), Narrative Cause in the Annals of Tacitus (Königstein).
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2000/2000-05-21.html (3170 words)

	A reconsideration of Tacitus and Lucan
		In this paper, I focus on resilient similarities between Lucan's Bellum Civile and Tacitus' Histories, to show that the historian uses this epic to support his interpretation of historical events and explore the socio-historical similarities between the civil wars of 49 BC and AD 69.
		First, Tacitus' uncommonly sympathetic view of the Roman plebs during the civil war echoes the stylistic means by which Lucan presents the devastating impact of Caesar's war on Italian civilians.
		That Tacitus would use Lucan to fuel his historical imagination suggests the conceptual, historical, and moral stability of the civil war discourse in Roman literature, a continuity that transcends modern genre definitions and expectations about the ìscientificî integrity of history writing.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/05mtg/abstracts/MANOLARAKI.html (681 words)

	History in Review - Ordering Anarchy: Armies and Leaders in Tacitus' Histories
		Tacitus' Histories has received a great deal of study and criticism as an historical document.
		Ash also illustrates how Tacitus' exploration of the internal motivations of the soldiers and their officers was crucial in explaining how, and why, there were continual breakdowns in military discipline and how these lapses affected the outcome of the various conflicts.
		Included is a critique of Tacitus' handling of the relationship between the emperors and the military commanding staffs, and between the emperors and the common soldiers.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /HIRanarchy.html (888 words)

	tacitus biblio
		Marincola, "Tacitus' Prefaces and the Decline of Imperial Historiography" Latomus 58 (1999) 391404.
		McDougall, "Tacitus and the Portrayal of the Elder Agrippina," EMC 25 (1981) 104108.
		Roberts, "The Revolt of Boudicca (Tacitus, Annals 14.2939) and the Assertion of Libertas in Neronian Rome," AJP 109 (1988) 118132.
	classics.rutgers.edu /tacitus_biblio.htm (1365 words)

	Wk. 15.1: Tacitus' Histories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		After they dies the truthfulness of history was impaired for two reasons; first men’s ignorance for public affairs, and second their passion for flattery.
		Tacitus says he is writing about a period of time starting in 69 C.E. which was a period rich in disaster.
		Tacitus describes the exit of Vitellius as such an astounding event that he can’t believe there was anybody who would not be affected by it.
	bellarmine.lmu.edu /classics/cl230/materialswk15-1.htm (1178 words)

	Tacitus and Jesus. Christ Myth Refuted. Did Jesus Exist? A Christian Response
		Tacitus would not have had permission to consult the imperial archives, and even if he did, it was not his regular practice to consult written documents.
		Tacitus was well-respected, a man who "won renown quickly," and "seemed of all the eminent men then active the most worthy of imitation." His reputation was such that in a letter of recommendation for a particular young man, Pliny indicates that being a friend of Tacitus is considered to be a sign of high quality.
		Tacitus is content to use the rumors to besmirch by association Livia and Tiberius who, whatever their failings, never displayed the deranged malice of an Agrippina and a Nero.
	www.tektonics.org /jesusexist/tacitus.html (7164 words)

	The Histories [of Ancient Rome] by Cornelius Tacitus
		No reader of the Histories can be in doubt that the writer's emotions are involved in his account of the recent and controversial past, written, it may be, with an eye to the present and to the inscrutable and perhaps ominous future.
		Tacitus realizes that much contemporary history is propagandist, but does not always succeed in freeing himself of its influence.
		Tacitus' method is to present us with a succession of longer or shorter 'chapters': the murder of Galba, the march on Rome, the Jews, and so on.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/tacitusc/histries/chap0.htm (3640 words)

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		Tacitus pours scorn on the philosophic opponents of the Principate, who while refusing to serve the emperor and pretending to hope for the restoration of the republic, could contribute nothing more useful than an ostentatious suicide.
		Tacitus had little sympathy with the social revolution that was rapidly completing itself, not so much because those who rose from the masses lacked 'blood', but because they had not been trained in the right traditions.
		FOOTNOTES: [5] To Vespasian Tacitus probably owed his quaestorship and a seat in the senate; to Titus his tribunate of the people; to Domitian the praetorship and a 'fellowship' of one of the great priestly colleges, whose special function was the supervision of foreign cults.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/6/9/2/16927/16927.txt (20757 words)

	tacitus
		Cornelius Tacitus was "the greatest historian of Imperial Rome.
		Tacitus' avowed aim was to keep alive the memory of virtuous actions so that posterity could judge them, and his great achievement was to have drawn a picture of how men must live under tyranny...
		The Agricola and the Histories were translated into English by Sir Henry Savile (1591), the Germania and Annales by Richard Greneway (1598); and after this Tacitus became in Donne's phrase the 'Oracle of Statesmen'..." (Drabble).
	www.manhattanrarebooks-history.com /tacitus.htm (385 words)

	Amazon.com: The Histories (Oxford World's Classics): Books: Tacitus,D. S. Levene,W. H. Fyfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tacitus the great Roman historian, although this means somewhat different things from what it does now, wrote during the eventful years of the first and second century straddling the changes in Roman society that took place over this time and the first inklings of the vast population movements which were still to come.
		Tacitus always seems to be looking back to the golden eras of a strong, vital and honest society often represented by the early years of expansion and struggle exemplified by the early Republic with figures such as Cato and later by Marius and even Augustus.
		Tacitus was a Roman conservative and, if his spirit could be summoned back from the dead, I would love to see him coming "From the Right" on "Crossfire." He was a tremendous writer, and "The Histories" are full of examples of this.
	www.amazon.com /Histories-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0192839586 (3053 words)

	Harvard University Press: Histories 1-3 by Tacitus
		Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 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.
		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.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/L111.html (325 words)

	Tacitus
		This is indeed a complication for the reader as one tries to understand the personalities of the time.
		When inwscriptions or other documentary material is available, the data in Tacitus' works seem generally authentic.
		Tacitus wrote the most detailed early description of Germany and the Germans during his time.
	www.dl.ket.org /latin1/historia/people/tacitus.htm (208 words)

	Eleni MANOLARAKI Dies Irae: The Broken Soldier in Tacitus’ Histories
		This is not merely a stylistic choice: rather than condemn and dismiss military rebellion as sheer madness, Tacitus delves into the causes of mutinies, as well as the feelings and motives of soldiers who perpetrate them.
		Tacitus fuses together the vocabularies of supplication and anger in order to make a distinct point: forced to support four different imperial contenders, change sides more than once in less than a year, and fight against their own colleagues, these Roman legionaries are the real victims of the war.
		Since Tacitus believed in the didactic purpose of history writing, his study of military conduct under battle duress was probably intended as a ktêma es aei.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/04mtg/abstracts/MANOLARAKI.html (495 words)

	Tacitus Index
		Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (56?-117 CE), writer, orator, lawyer, and senator, was one of the greatest historians of antiquity.
		Tacitus presents a vivid picture of the high-water point of the Roman empire, and does not gloss over the toxic corruption and brutality of the time.
		Although "Tacitus" means silent, ironically he was known for his oratory.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/tac/index.htm (559 words)

	Ash: on Tacitus, The Histories
		In the dedication to his translation of Tacitus' Histories (Oxford 1912), W.H. Fyfe quotes Sir Henry Savile (1591): "If thy stomacke be so tender as thou canst not digest Tacitus in his owne stile, thou art beholding to one who gives thee the same food, but with a pleasant and easie taste".
		Tacitus famously refused to call a spade a spade, but this should never force translators to bury meaning in verbosity.
		Syme, Tacitus (Oxford 1958) 348, says of the Annals: "The style abounds in violent metaphors, drawing imagery from light and dark, rapid movement, growth and decay, destruction and conflagration".
	www.dur.ac.uk /Classics/histos/1997/ashrev.html (1254 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.09.14
		Conversely, she pinpoints moments where Tacitus' language provides more elevation than a situation calls for, as at 1.79.2, lubrico itinerum adempta equorum pernicitate, 'which describes an almost farcical scene of horses slipping on ice' (14; a cross-reference in the commentary on 258 would have been helpful).
		Tacitus' strategy of beginning the Histories on January 1st 69 obliges him, where necessary, to address the events of the bellum Neronis retrospectively and in a relatively truncated way, thereby requiring the commentator to pay particular careful attention to providing support.
		The strongest such sections are where she extends her focus to include broader analysis beyond Tacitus, especially in her introductions to (a) Histories 1.4-11 on the chronological retrospective and geographical survey (98-100), which is particularly constructive in comparing Sallust's techniques, and (b) Histories 1.86 on supernatural phenomena (273-5), which uses Livy well.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2003/2003-09-14.html (1849 words)

	Cornelius Tacitus
		Even though the passage is authentic to Tacitus, it might be argued that Tacitus received his information about the origin of the Christian name from Christians themselves.
		On (5), it may be suggested that Tacitus didn't expend considerable effort but rather had a servant find what could be found on the Christian sect (not necessarily on Jesus), which would have included the report on their classification as a religio prava.
		On (3), Tacitus is giving merely the briefest account of the origin of the name Christian and so cannot be expected to mention such Christian doctrines.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /tacitus.html (1540 words)

	Histories (Tacitus) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In contrast, Nerva adopted Trajan, who was able to keep the legions unified, to keep the army out of imperial politics, to stop disorder among the legions, and thus to prevent rival claimants to the throne.
		Tacitus writes from the point of view of an aristocrat.
		Tacitus skillfully shows the characters, alterning short and sharp notations with complete portraits.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Histories_(Tacitus) (913 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 99047172
		Tacitus made his debut as a historian with the powerful Histories, a fundamentally important book for students of the literature and history of Rome in the early imperial period.
		Next, using different analytical techniques, she investigates Tacitus' portraits of Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian, and of the Flavian general Antonius Primus, who plays a comparatively minor part in other accounts of the civil wars.
		Only the charismatic Primus possesses the necessary leadership skills to control the armies, but Tacitus shows us why there is no room for this talented general in the new Flavian regime after the war.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/umich051/99047172.html (363 words)

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		Available online at http://classics.mit.edu//Tacitus/histories.html The Histories By Tacitus Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOK I January - March, A.D. I begin my work with the time when Servius Galba was consul for the second time with Titus Vinius for his colleague.
		Then too the truthfulness of history was impaired in many ways; at first, through men's ignorance of public affairs, which were now wholly strange to them, then, through their passion for flattery, or, on the other hand, their hatred of their masters.
		I have reserved as an employment for my old age, should my life be long enough, a subject at once more fruitful and less anxious in the reign of the Divine Nerva and the empire of Trajan, enjoying the rare happiness of times, when we may think what we please, and express what we think.
	classics.mit.edu /Tacitus/histories.mb.txt (14846 words)

	Tacitus - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Book 5 --- 70 A.D. Tacitus grew up during a the reign of Nero, and may have been a teenager when Nero died and the Roman empire was plunged into civil war.
		We do not have a complete account of either the Annals or the Histories, but what has been preserved provides an interesting look at Roman life, written by one who lived close to those times.
		The electronic text of Tacitus was originally provided by Virginia Tech as an ASCII text file at gopher://gopher.vt.edu:10010/10/33, but it is no longer available there and no link update is known.
	mcadams.posc.mu.edu /txt/ah/tacitus (232 words)

	rogueclassicism: Abstract: Theatricality in Tacitus' Histories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Following on the work of Bartsch and Shumate, this paper analyses the role of historian as theatre critic and considers the types of public display put on by different protagonists in Tacitus's Histories.
		Major figures such as the emperors and their generals are placed in positions where they are required to display the correct public forms, while various groups within the text offer their own evaluations (almost always different from the implied conclusions of the meta-audience, Tacitus's own readers).
		Certain scenes of display are repeated, such as the progress of a successful general/emperor through his territories or an emperor's address to his troops to justify his claims for power.
	www.atrium-media.com /rogueclassicism/Posts/00004018.html (174 words)

	Tacitus Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
		The histories of Roman senator Cornelius Tacitus constitute the most influential examination of tyranny, political behavior and public morality from t...
		The Annals of Tacitus, which chronicle the years AD 14-68, are arguably the greatest work of the greatest Roman historian.
		Tacitus: The annals of imperial Rome ; transl.
	www.bookfinder4u.com /search_3/Tacitus.html (597 words)

	Tacitus: Histories Book I - Cambridge University Press
		The first historical work by Rome's greatest historian, Tacitus' Histories hold a crucial place in the history of Latin literature.
		After a distinguished public career during the principates of Vespasian and his sons, Tacitus, in middle age, embarked on a historical narrative recording the seering events of the Rome of his youth.
		The chance survival of three parallel accounts permits detailed analysis of Tacitus' selection and stylization of material.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521578221 (289 words)

	Tacitus and his manuscripts
		The script is a pre-carolingian hand which the scribe is changing to Carolingian minuscule, together with occasional small plain majuscules (a 9th century derivative of rustic capitals), a more ornamental version of these letters with decorative shading and some uncial elements, and also a few much larger and heavier capitals of essentially rustic form.
		However as with all history, the personal element of selection and interpretation means that scholars do not necessarily accept Tacitus' view as the final and just interpretation of first-century Roman history.
		Jerome in his commentary on Zacchariah 14.1, 2 cites Tacitus as the author of a history from the death of Augustus to the death of Domitian, in 30 volumes.
	www.tertullian.org /rpearse/tacitus (4567 words)

	Haynes on Ash, Ordering Anarchy
		And although she does not argue for it herself, one of the things I find most attractive about this book is its latent suggestion that if the Histories dissembles sketchiness as part of an overall scheme, it is possible that the apparent randomness of the extant texts--i.e.
		In other words, to return to Tacitus, perhaps it isn't the events he narrates that are of interest, but the relationships between them; not the allusions he makes to other authors, but the kinds of connections he makes with them.
		Another example: Ash argues that Vespasian looks weak because he has fraternised excessively with his soldiers, picked up their mentality, and believes in omens; similarly, Germanicus was popular with the soldiers and ended up the victim of curse tablets and other magic trinkets under the floorboards.
	www.dur.ac.uk /Classics/histos/2000/ash.html (859 words)

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