Tacitus

Tacitus’s Followers (367)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

Tacitus


Born
Gaul
Genre


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 Brit
...more

Average rating: 4.0 · 24,403 ratings · 1,180 reviews · 3,049 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Annals of Imperial Rome

3.99 avg rating — 9,273 ratings — published 116 — 13 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Agricola and The Germania

by
3.97 avg rating — 6,069 ratings — published 98 — 596 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Histories

4.13 avg rating — 3,939 ratings — published 110 — 8 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Germania

3.87 avg rating — 1,928 ratings — published 98 — 172 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Complete Works of Tacitus

by
4.22 avg rating — 538 ratings — published 120 — 144 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Annals/The Histories

by
4.02 avg rating — 362 ratings — published 1852 — 41 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Histories I-II

4.10 avg rating — 290 ratings — published 120 — 54 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Agricola

3.68 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 98 — 109 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Agricola / Germania / Dialo...

by
3.92 avg rating — 201 ratings — published -98 — 157 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Madness of Nero

by
3.53 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 120 — 8 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Tacitus…
Selections from Agricola Histories vol 1, books I-III
(15 books)
by
4.10 avg rating — 167 ratings

Quotes by Tacitus  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

“Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure”
Tacitus

“If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”
Tacitus



Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Tacitus to Goodreads.