Tacitus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman historian and senator born around AD 56, probably in Gaul or northern Italy, into a family of the equestrian class. He studied rhetoric in Rome and became a well-known orator. In 77 or 78 he married Julia, daughter of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, the general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Britain. He rose through the offices of state and became consul in 97, the first of his family to do so. Later, around 112, he served as governor of the province of Asia. His first works, written around 98, were Agricola, a life of his father-in-law that also describes Britain and its people, and Germania, an account of the Germanic peoples. His two great histories, the Histories and the Annals, together covered the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus in AD 14 to the death of Domitian in 96, though large parts are lost. Writing in a brief, sharp style, he described the cruelty and flattery of court life under the emperors and the loss of the old Roman freedoms. He died around 120.

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