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Publius Cornelius Tacitus (0056–0117)

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Tacitus was a Roman senator who survived the terror launched among the Roman aristocracy by the emperor Domitian to rise to prominence and become first suffect consul and later proconsul of Asia. His historical works, which originally covered the first century of the empire from the accession of mostra altro Tiberius to the assassination of Domitian, are an indictment of the emperors and of the senatorial aristocracy under imperial autocracy. They remain the fundamental sources of imperial history in this period. The embarrasing paradox of Tacitus's success under a "bad" emperor appears to have had an effect on his works, whose tone may have struck contemporaries as a defense of his prominence under a despot. Tacitus is thus often thought to have nursed a nostalgia for the Republic and the free nobility of its senatorial order. However, his attitude is less genuinely backward-looking than occupied with the contemporary moral and political problems of aristocratic honor. In The Annals, which survives only in part, he examines palace politics under the Julio-Claudians. The unspoken questions that occupy this examination are those of the possibilities of uncompromised and dignified service under despotism, and the opportunities therein to mitigate its evil. These themes emerge into daylight in The Agricola, his laudatory biography of his father-in-law, the Roman general who conquered Britain. The work portrays Agricola as a straightforward military man who preserved his integrity and the admiration of his contemporaries under the emperor Domitian, even though his greatest achievements went unrewarded. Tacitus was a trained advocate, and fundamental to his outlook is his prosecutorial purpose. He states the case against the emperors and others who attract his unfavorable judgment. This bias can be difficult for the reader to overcome. But Tacitus also played by the rules of advocacy. He appears to bring to light facts unfavorable to his case in order to interpret them according to the necessities of his argument. His lawyerly honesty thereby allows the historian to dissect the facts from their matrix in order to use them in reconstructing a historical account of the first century of the empire which is more balanced, if inevitably less committed, than that of Tacitus. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Nota di disambiguazione:

(eng) full name either Publius Cornelius Tacitus or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus.

(dut) De klassieke Romein, niet de striptekenaar Franck Tacito (toewijzing 2)

(ger) Vollständiger Name entweder Publius Cornelius Tacitus oder Gaius Cornelius Tacitus.

Opere di Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Annali (0117) — Autore — 3,811 copie
Agricola and Germania (0098) — Autore — 2,059 copie
Storie (0100) — Autore — 1,458 copie
Annali et storie (0098) — Autore — 824 copie
Germania (0098) — Autore — 434 copie
Agricola (1898) 215 copie
Annales {Latin} (1908) 168 copie
Tacitus: Dialogus de oratoribus (1936) — Autore — 122 copie
Opera Minora (1938) 96 copie
Annals. Books 1-6 (1890) 93 copie
Tacitus: Annals Book IV (1989) 68 copie
Annali, volume primo (1959) 66 copie
Germania (1972) — Autore — 54 copie
Tacitus: Histories Book I (2002) 51 copie
[Opera] (1893) — Autore — 46 copie
Annals XIV (1939) 43 copie
Gli annali. Libro 15. (1973) 39 copie
The Histories I-II (1964) 29 copie
Annalium ab excessu divi Augusti libri XI-XVI (1884) — Autore — 26 copie
Annales libri 1-6 {Latin} (1890) 25 copie
The Reign of Nero (1952) 20 copie
Annali, volume secondo (1981) 19 copie
Tacitus, in five volumes (2004) 16 copie
Tacitus 13 copie
Dialog über die Redner: Lateinisch/Deutsch (1981) — Autore — 10 copie
Gli annali: La vita di Giulio Agricola (1974) — Autore — 8 copie
Los Anales (1949) 7 copie
Germania / Die Annalen. (1979) 6 copie
Gli annali. Libro XIV (1927) 6 copie
Tacito - Germania (2019) 5 copie
Historien (2002) 5 copie
Le drame d'un empire (1990) 5 copie
Annali : volume secondo (2007) 4 copie
Anales I (2007) 4 copie
Obres menors (1926) 3 copie
Annales 1-3 3 copie
Cornelii Taciti libri quae supersunt — Autore — 3 copie
Anales II (2017) — Autore — 3 copie
The Histories (1972) 3 copie
ANNALI. VOLUME SECONDO. (1951) 2 copie
Tacitus' Germania (2023) 2 copie
Anales II (2008) 2 copie
Tacite: Oeuvres Choisies (1923) 2 copie
Arte de la biografía — Collaboratore — 2 copie
On Germany (2018) 2 copie
Die Römer in England (2014) 2 copie
Opera minora (1970) 1 copia
Tibère de Tacite (1966) 1 copia
Tacitus' Germania (2018) 1 copia
Tacitus. Annalen. (1964) 1 copia
The Histories Volume II (2016) 1 copia
Opera minora 1 copia
Da Nerone ai Germani (2002) 1 copia
Tacito (2007) 1 copia
Principato e libertà (1970) 1 copia
Annali : 2 (1970) 1 copia
Storie (Italian Edition) (2019) 1 copia
Tacite 1 copia
Annali. Libro XI (2011) 1 copia
Tácito (1975) 1 copia
Historias (1944) 1 copia
Anales II 1 copia
Roczniki (2021) 1 copia
Nowele Rzymskie — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Extraits 1 copia
Pensieri 1 copia
Buch 1 - 3 1 copia
Obres menors 1 copia
Histoires et Opuscules (1959) 1 copia
Tutte le opere (1993) 1 copia
Annali. Vol 2 1 copia
Néron de tacite (1948) 1 copia
Histoire 1 copia
Agrippine et Néron — Autore — 1 copia
Tacitus: Roman History (2015) — Autore — 1 copia
Tacito Annali 1 copia
Opera minora 1 copia
The Reign of Tiberius (2018) 1 copia
La Germani 1 copia
Le storie (2019) 1 copia
Annals (I) (1930) 1 copia
Històries, I 1 copia
Obres menors 1 copia

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Nome legale
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
Tacitus, Gajus Cornelius
Data di nascita
0056
Data di morte
0117
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
Romeinse Rijk
Nazione (per mappa)
Italy
France
Luogo di nascita
Galla Narboniensis, Roman Empire (now France)
Luogo di residenza
Rome, Romeinse Rijk
Attività lavorative
public official
orator
geschiedschrijver
Relazioni
Pliny the Younger (friend)
Organizzazioni
Equestrian Order
Roman Senate
SPQR
Nota di disambiguazione
De klassieke Romein, niet de striptekenaar Franck Tacito (toewijzing 2)

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Tacitus Annals and History in Ancient History (Febbraio 2023)
How did Tacitus really feel? in Ancient History (Luglio 2009)

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Utenti
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