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978-0-674-99039-5
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978-0-674-99123-1
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978-0-674-99274-0
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978-0-674-99345-7
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978-0-674-99355-6
Series Statement:
Loeb Classical Library 35, 111, 249, 312, 322
Note:
Includes indexes. - Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in 55, 56 or 57 CE 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. After four years' absence he experienced the terrors of Emperor Domitian's last years and turned to historical writing. He was a consul in 97. Close friend of the younger Pliny, with him he successfully prosecuted Marius Priscus. 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. As a historian of the early Roman empire he is paramount
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Author information:
Tacitus, Cornelius 55-120
Author information:
Ogilvie, R. M. 1932-1981
