41. Guardian Unlimited | Comment Is Free | Tacitus Was No Elitist tacitus was no elitist. It is the sheer difficulty of learning the Latin Reading the Roman historian tacitus is probably best compared to getting to http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1991336,00.html

Sign in Register Read today's paper Jobs Go to: Guardian Unlimited home UK news World news Archive search Arts Books Business EducationGuardian.co.uk Film Football Jobs Life MediaGuardian.co.uk Money The Observer Online Politics Shopping SocietyGuardian.co.uk Sport Talk Travel Audio Email services Special reports The Guardian The weblog The informer The northerner The wrap Advertising guide Crossword Dating Headline service Syndication services Events / offers Help / contacts Information Living our values Newsroom Reader Offers Style guide Travel offers TV listings Weather Web guides Working at GNL Guardian Weekly Money Observer Search: Home Contributors A-Z Subjects A-Z Editors' blog ... Other blogs Tacitus was no elitist It is the sheer difficulty of learning the Latin language that makes it a great social leveller Mary Beard Tuesday January 16, 2007 The Guardian Imagine an evening at the theatre listening to words like this. "Thine arms were gyved! Nay, no gyve, no touch, was laid on me. 'Twas there I mocked him, in his gyves..." It's hardly a thrilling prospect. But if the study of Greek and Latin in this country had been quietly stopped after the first world war (as nearly happened), this is how we would now all be experiencing Greek tragedy, for that was a quote from Gilbert Murray's translation of Euripides's Bacchae, published in 1904. It's the leader of the chorus talking to the god Dionysus, who's just escaped from prison - a "gyve" is apparently an old-fashioned word for a chain. In a Greek-less world, that would be about as close to Euripides as we could get.

42. The Destruction Of Pompeii, 79 AD A few years after the event, Pliny wrote a friend, Cornelius tacitus, . In a second letter to tacitus, Pliny describes what happened to him and to his http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/pompeii.htm

The Ancient World The Battle of Marathon, 490 BC Everyday Life in Ancient Greece The Suicide of Socrates, 399 BC ... Dining with Attila the Hun, 448 The Destruction of Pompeii, 79 AD Printer Friendly Version >>> O n August 24, 79 Mount Vesuvius literally blew its top, spewing tons of molten ash, pumice and sulfuric gas miles into Vesuvius erupts, 1944 the atmosphere. A "firestorm" of poisonous vapors and molten debris engulfed the surrounding area suffocating the inhabitants of the neighboring Roman resort cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae. Tons of falling debris filled the streets until nothing remained to be seen of the once thriving communities. The cities remained buried and undiscovered for almost 1700 years until excavation began in 1748. These excavations continue today and provide insight into life during the Roman Empire. An ancient voice reaches out from the past to tell us of the disaster. This voice belongs to Pliny the Younger whose letters describe his experience during the eruption while he was staying in the home of his Uncle, Pliny the Elder. The elder Pliny was an official in the Roman Court, in charge of the fleet in the area of the Bay of Naples and a naturalist. Pliny the Younger's letters were discovered in the 16th century. Wrath of the Gods A few years after the event, Pliny wrote a friend, Cornelius Tacitus, describing the happenings of late August 79 AD when the eruption of Vesuvius obliterated Pompeii, killed his Uncle and almost destroyed his family. At the time, Pliney was eighteen and living at his Uncle's villa in the town of Misenum. We pick up his story as he describes the warning raised by his mother:

43. The Roman Gask Project Peter Salway s Roman Britain is slightly more critical of tacitus, Interestingly tacitus Agricola is far less explicit about Agricola being the first http://www.theromangaskproject.org.uk/Pages/Introduction/Tacitus.html

ARCHAEOLOGY VERSUS TACITUS' AGRICOLA, A 1ST CENTURY WORST CASE SCENARIO A lecture given to the Theoretical Archaeology Group conference, held in Dublin, 15th December, 2001 Birgitta Hoffmann Gask home In 1425 Poggio, the Pope's secretary and book-collector in Rome, got a letter from the monastery of Hersfeld in Germany, informing him that after checking his list of desiderata against the books preserved in their library, a volume of hitherto unknown works of Tacitus had been identified. In the ensuing correspondence it became clear that these 'new' works were the Dialogue on the Orator, the Germania and the Agricola. It took another 30 years for this manuscript to make its way from Germany to Italy, where it seems that, from the 1470s onwards, a number of people made hand-written and printed copies, before the original manuscript vanished, only to partly resurface in the early 20th century in Iesi in Northern Italy. Given the problems that the Germania and Agricola in particular have caused, there must be quite a few Romanists, who wish that the manuscripts might have gone astray in the post en-route to Rome, but instead the Agricola has risen to become one of the most read volumes of Roman history in Britain. The text itself is, according to most of its editors, a form of funeral eulogy for Tacitus' father-in-law. It is full of the ingredients of a gripping historical tale: a good story, a believable main character, and a battle scene, indeed - only the happy ending falls far short of expectations. The same ingredients now make 'Meet the Ancestors' such a success on television, and we should not be surprised that from at least the 18th century onwards, it became a popular pastime of vicars and military personnel to try to find the location of the reported events, usually by associating them with 'Roman antiquities' in the fields of their parishes.

44. Harvard University Press: Tacitus, I, Agricola. Germania. Dialogue On Oratory By tacitus, I, Agricola. Germania. Dialogue on Oratory by tacitus, published by Harvard University Press. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/L035.html

Home Ordering Search/Browse Contact ... HUP Tacitus, I, Agricola. Germania. Dialogue on Oratory Tacitus Translator M. Hutton Translator W. Peterson Revised by R. M. Ogilvie Revised by E. H. Warmington Revised by M. Winterbottom 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. Works: (i) Life and Character of Agricola, Germania Dialogue on Oratory Dialogus ), of unknown date; a lively conversation about the decline of oratory and education. (iv) Histories CE Annals, CE 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. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Tacitus is in five volumes.

45. The Right Coast: Tacitus And Political Correctness In The Roman EmpireGail Herio It led me to do some casual research on tacitusperhaps the first European to indulge in the noble savage myth. (To my delight, the first entry to pop up http://rightcoast.typepad.com/rightcoast/2007/10/tacitus-and-pol.html

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46. Tacitus, Roman Emperor — Infoplease.com Turning to tacitus.(lessons from tacitus regarding the rule of law and freedom when confronted by terror) (Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law) http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0847597.html

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47. Boudicca And The Druids Tacitus tacitus, Annals, Book XIV, Chapters 2937 Chapter 29. .. The translation from Latin is adapted from Arthur Murphy (Works of tacitus, 1794). http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/tacitus.html

Search Britannia BRITANNIA GATEWAYS History Travel British Life Shop Britannia Tacitus, Annals, Book XIV, Chapters 29-37 Chapter 29 . [Military campaign in Wales] During the consulship of Lucius Caesennius Paetus and Publius Petronius Turpilianus [AD 60-61], a dreadful calamity befell the army in Britain. Aulus Didius, as has been mentioned, aimed at no extension of territory, content with maintaining the conquests already made. Veranius, who succeeded him, did little more: he made a few incursions into the country of the Silures, and was hindered by death from prosecuting the war with vigour. He had been respected, during his life, for the severity of his manners; in his end, the mark fell off, and his last will discovered the low ambition of a servile flatterer, who, in those moments, could offer incense to Nero, and add, with vain ostentation, that if he lived two years, it was his design to make the whole island obedient to the authority of the prince. Paulinus Suetonius succeeded to the command; an officer of distinguished merit. To be compared with Corbulo was his ambition. His military talents gave him pretensions, and the voice of the people, who never leave exalted merit without a rival, raised him to the highest eminence. By subduing the mutinous spirit of the Britons he hoped to equal the brilliant success of Corbulo in Armenia. With this view, he resolved to subdue the isle of Mona; a place in habited by a warlike people, and a common refuge for all the discontented Britons. In order to facilitate his approach to a difficult and deceitful shore, he ordered a number of flat-bottomed boats to be constructed. In these he wafted over the infantry, while the cavalry, partly by fording over the shallows, and partly by swimming their horses, advanced to gain a footing on the island.

48. Cry Freedom: Tacitus Annals 4.32-35 T.J. Luce s 1991 paper on tacitus contains many suggestive remarks. Patrick Sinclair s 1995 book on tacitus has some interesting pages on the digression. http://www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1998/moles.html

Cry Freedom: Tacitus Annals John Moles (Department of Classics, University of Durham) Plan The text of the digression (4.32-33) Latin text translation parallel text ... Appendix: objections to this paper. 1 The Text of the Digression For readers' convenience I print: ( ) a Latin text; ( ) a translation; and ( ) a Loeb-style parallel text. 1.1 Latin text Pleraque eorum quae rettuli quaeque referam parva forsitan et levia memoratu videri non nescius sum; set nemo annales nostros cum scriptura eorum contenderit qui veteres populi Romani res composuere. Ingentia illi bella, expugnationes urbium, fusos captosque reges aut, si quando ad interna praeverterent, discordias consulum adversum tribunos, agrarias frumentariasque leges, plebis et optimatium certamina libero egressu memorabant. Nobis in arto et inglorius labor: immota quippe aut modice lacessita pax, maestae urbis res, et princeps proferendi imperi incuriosus erat. Non tamen sine usu fuerit introspicere illa primo aspectu levia, ex quis magnarum saepe rerum motus oriuntur. Nam cunctas nationes et urbes populus aut primores aut singuli regunt: delecta ex iis et conflata rei publicae forma laudari facilius quam evenire, vel si evenit, haud diuturna esse potest.

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50. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Nicholas Tacitus Zegers Exegete, born either at Diest or Brussels during the latter half of the fifteenth century; died at Louvain, 25 August, 1559. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15753b.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... Z > Nicholas Tacitus Zegers Nicholas Tacitus Zegers Famous exegete , born either at Diest or Brussels during the latter half of the fifteenth century; died at Louvain , 25 August, 1559. After receiving a scientific education at Louvain , he entered the Franciscan Order , joining the Province of Cologne. At the division for that province; he was assigned to the Low German Province. There, coming under the influence of Francis Titelmann, professor of exegesis in the convent of Louvain , he devoted himself to the study of Scriptures and succeeded Titelmann in the chair of exegesis in 1536. In 1548 he gave up his chair to devote himself to writing. His solid foundation in Greek and Hebrew enabled him to exercise sound critical judgment on the explanation of the different passages of Holy Writ , a quality at that time very rare. Memeranus writes of him: Vir pietatis amans, semper studiosus honesti, Et bona qui semper publica ubique juvat. The fruits of his literary labours were very numerous. Besides many translations of ascetical works from the Flemish and French into Latin, he also wrote: "Proverbia Teutonica Latinitate Donata" (Antwerp, 1550 and 1571); "Scholion in omnes Novi Testamenti libros" (Cologne, 1553); "Epanorthotes, sive Castigationes Novi Testamenti" (Cologne, 1555); "Dye Collegie der Wysheit ghefundeert in dye universiteit der deughden" (Antwerp, 1556); "Inventorium in Testamentum Novum", a kind of

51. Cornelius Tacitus - LoveToKnow 1911 Biographical article in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Some scanner errors. http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Cornelius_Tacitus

Cornelius Tacitus From LoveToKnow 1911 CORNELIUS TACITUS c. 55-120), Roman historian. Tacitus, who ranks beyond dispute in the highest place among men of letters of all ages, lived through the reigns of the emperors Nero Galba , Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian Titus Domitian , Nerva and Trajan . All we know of his personal history is from allusions to himself in his own works, and from eleven letters addressed to him by his very intimate friend, the younger Pliny . The exact year of his birth is a matter of inference, but it may be approximately fixed near the close of the reign of Claudius Pliny indeed, though himself born in 61 or 62, speaks of Tacitus and himself as being " much of an age," 1 but he must have been some years junior to his friend, who began, he tells us, his official life under Vespasian , 2 no doubt as quaestor , and presumably tribune or aedile under Titus (80 or 81), at which time he must have been twenty-five years of age at least. Of his family and birthplace we know nothing certain; we can infer nothing from his name Cornelius , which was then very widely extended; but the fact of his early promotion seems to point to respectable antecedents, and it may be that his father was one Cornelius Tacitus, who had been a

52. Obsidian Wings: Well, They Agree On One Thing Okay ObWi posters You let tacitus back on this site after the most egregious tacitus Surely you can defend your arguments, such as they are, http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2005/03/well_they_agree.html

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53. Who Was Who In Roman Times: Sources The Annals by tacitus The Gallic War by Julius Caesar Of some chapters a Dutch translation is available as well. Germania by tacitus http://www.romansonline.com/Menu_s.asp

Home Introduction Persons Geogr. ... Get FireFox This is a non-commercial site. Any revenues from Google ads are used to improve the site. Quote of the day: Then, when by a decree of the Senate he Edited sources Edited sources are documents of an original work of Roman times in which the names of interesting subjects involved are presented as a link to the system. This includes links to persons, places, peoples, events and other subjects. If necessary books are split into chapters, and titles of the chapters are added. If in a chapter a person is not mentioned by name the indication like "dictator", "consul", "wife", "daughter" etc., will be presented as a note. The (edited) English translation, sometimes with the original Latin text: 'Agricola' by Tacitus 'The Annals' by Tacitus 'The Gallic War' by Julius Caesar Of some chapters a Dutch translation is available as well. 'Germania' by Tacitus 'The Histories' by Tacitus 'The Aeneid' by Virgil 'The deeds of Augustus' by Augustus ... 'Twelve Caesars' by Suetonius Originally in Greek: 'The Goths' by Jordanes 'Mispogon (Beard-hater)' by Julian Lives by Plutarch Other possibilities: Quotes from edited sources: Quotes about persons Quotes about geografical entities Quotes about other subjects Persons mentioned in more than two of these edited sources.

54. Tacitus, The Annals Complete Works of tacitus. tacitus. Alfred John Church. William Jackson Brodribb. Sara Bryant. edited for Perseus. New York Random House, Inc. Random House http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0078

55. Cornelius Tacitus Quotes - The Quotations Page Cornelius tacitus; In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the Cornelius tacitus; It is found by experience that admirable laws and right http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Cornelius_Tacitus/

Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD) [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 9 of 9 total He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion. Cornelius Tacitus I am my nearest neighbour. Cornelius Tacitus In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue. Cornelius Tacitus It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. Cornelius Tacitus - More quotations on: [ Laws Keen at the start, but careless at the end. Cornelius Tacitus No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations. Cornelius Tacitus That cannot be safe which is not honourable. Cornelius Tacitus There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive. Cornelius Tacitus It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

56. Internet Archive: Details: The Works Of Tacitus, Edited And With Essays By Thoma Author tacitus, Publius Cornelius Source Librivox recording of a 01 Discourse I Upon Former English Translations of tacitus, 38.1M 21.8M 19.1M http://www.archive.org/details/works_tacitus_0801_librivox1

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57. LRB · Mary Beard: Four-Day Caesar And, as tacitus sharply observed, in the conflicts between rival provincial The adoption of Piso is the first major event in tacitus’ Histories, http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n02/bear01_.html

Skip navigation HOME SUBSCRIBE LOG IN ... ACCESSIBILITY Search the LRB All the words Exact phrase advanced search SUBSCRIBER REGISTRATION Subscribers to the LRB currently get free access to the full content of the magazine in an online edition. If you are a subscriber and would like to register for online access click here If you are already registered you can log in from our login page If you would like further information about subscribing to the LRB click here. LRB 22 January 2004 Mary Beard print layout tell a friend Four-Day Caesar Mary Beard Tacitus: Histories I edited by Cynthia Damon The Emperor Nero died on 9 June 68 CE. The Senate had passed the ancient equivalent of a vote of no-confidence; his staff and bodyguards were rapidly deserting him. The Emperor made for the out-of-town villa of one of his remaining servants, where he pre-empted execution by committing suicide. An aesthete to the end, he insisted that marble be collected to make a decent memorial, and as he lingered on the choice of suicide weapon, he repeated his famous last words – ‘Qualis artifex pereo’ (‘What an artist the world is losing by my death’) – interspersed with some appropriately poignant quotes from the Iliad . Or so the story goes. ‘The Year of the Four Emperors’, as it is euphemistically called in modern accounts, as if to avoid the term ‘civil war’, marks a crucial turning point in Roman history. Nero was the last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. With him died not only an artist, but the very idea that claims to imperial power were legitimated by direct or indirect genealogical connection with the first Emperor, Augustus. For the rest of imperial history, what made an emperor – or what gave one candidate for the purple a better claim than another – would be a matter of dispute. And, as Tacitus sharply observed, in the conflicts between rival provincial governors with their rival armies, one ‘secret of empire’ had been let out of the bag: ‘It was possible for an emperor to be created somewhere other than Rome.’

58. TACITUS On The Germans tacitus seems to idealize some facets of the Germans society, perhaps in contrast to things which he felt were deteriorating in the Roman world, http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/Texts/TacitusGerm.html

TACITUS: De Germania This remarkable little book is, after Caesar's remarks in the Commentarii VI, our only source of information about the early Germans, and it has been studied in greatest detail especially by the Germans with full scholarly detail. It was published apparently in or near 98 AD under Trajan, from a remark in Section 37, and was intended to bring to the Romans little known information about their important northern neighbors. There is much supposition and guesswork in the Germania, but also factual materials for which we would have no other source in Roman history, so the book has a special place of importance for us. Tacitus seems to idealize some facets of the Germans' society, perhaps in contrast to things which he felt were deteriorating in the Roman world, and some of his positive appreciations must be taken with some caution. On the other hand, where there is so little information available, everything is potentially valuable. Stylistically this is early Tacitus and much easier reading than his later work which is characterized by an increasingly harsh view of politics accompanied with an increasingly terse and difficult style of writing. A little later than the Agricola memoir (from which I have selected a few parallel passage on the Britons) it is not difficult reading and I have given the whole text, which I think can be read fairly well without commentary. After reading some Caesar and getting the basic vocabulary of the Frontier under control, the Germania in a sense can speak directly for itself.

59. Antisemitism: Tacitus article by tacitus translation by Kenneth Wellesley . tacitus rationalizes this myth and seems to believe that Zeus and Kronos were kings. http://www.livius.org/am-ao/antisemitism/antisemitism-t.html

home index Judaea : article by Tacitus : translation by Kenneth Wellesley Tacitus on the Jews Tacitus, The Histories [2] The Jews are said to have been refugees from the island of Crete who settled in the remotest corner of Libya in the days when, according to the story, Saturn was driven from his throne by the aggression of Jupiter . This is a deduction from the name Judaei by which they became known: the word is to be regarded as a barbarous lengthening of Idaei , the name of the people dwelling around the famous Mount Ida in Crete. A few authorities hold that in the reign of Isis the surplus population of Egypt was evacuated to neighboring lands under the leadership of Hierosolymus and Judas . Many assure us that the Jews are descended from those Ethiopians who were driven by fear and hatred to emigrate from their home country when Cepheus was king . There are some who say that a motley collection of landless Assyrians ] occupied a part of Egypt, and then built cities of their own, inhabiting the lands of the Hebrews and the nearer parts of Syria. Others again find a famous ancestry for the Jews in the Solymi who are mentioned with respect in the epics of Homer ]: this tribe is supposed have founded Jerusalem and named it after themselves.

60. Tacitus And Tiberius Did tacitus malign Tiberius by portraying him as hypocritical, cruel, wrathful and preverted? http://janusquirinus.org/essays/Tiberius.html

Tacitus and Tiberius The emperor Tiberius emerges from Tacitus' Annals as a hypocritical, cruel and immoral character. Yet a closer study of the factual evidence given by Tacitus illustrates a totally different emperor. Indeed, it would appear that Tiberius, at least in the first half of his reign, was exceedingly capable. It is interesting to note that the negative impression created by Tacitus—despite the factual evidence—arises from his seductive writing style and innuendoes, and not so much from tangible evidence. The reason why Tacitus depict Tiberius as such is of interest because it shows his bias, perhaps based on his background, and brings into question the reliability of Tacitus' history writing. It is also representative of the hostile senatorial tradition towards the emperors. from http://janusquirinus.org/ The reign of Tiberius according to Tacitus can be separated into two different periods, demarcated by the death of Drusus and the ascendancy of Sejanus. The initial period was regarded by Tacitus as "a time of reserve and crafty assumptions of virtue", while the days in Capri were a time of paranoid politics and moral depravity, "[plunging] into every wickedness and disgrace" ( Annals VI.51). The general picture painted of 'Tiberius is that he was a man with inherent character flaws, which he hid as long as there were external reasons, perhaps with hypocritical acts of goodness or kindness. Eventually, though, he cast off his pretences and "indulged his own inclination"’ (

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