2776 Published BooksTacitus
born perhaps 55
died perhaps 120
From the death of Augustus in 14
Histories
and
Annals
, greatest works of Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Roman public official, concern the period to Domitian in 96.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus served as a senator of the empire. The major portions examine the reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those four emperors, who reigned in the year. They span the empire to the years of the first Jewish war in 70. One enormous four-books long lacuna survives in the texts.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus discusses oratory in dialogue format in
Dialogus de oratoribus
, Germania in
De origine et situ Germanorum
, and biographical notes about Gnaeus Julius Agricola, his father-in-law, primarily during his campaign in Britannia (see
De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae
).
