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| | Roman Emperors - DIR Tacitus |
 | | Several passages in the Historia Augusta claim that these edicts were suspended for the duration of the reigns of Tacitus and Florian. | | | [[2]] All the statements in the Historia Augusta regarding Tacitus' earlier career, including the claim he was related to the historian Tacitus, have been rejected by historians as fictitious. | | | As Emperor, Tacitus first had Aurelian deified, then seized and executed many individuals involved in plotting Aurelian's murder. |
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http://www.roman-emperors.org/tacitus.htm
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| | Tacitus and Jesus. Christ Myth Refuted. Did Jesus Exist? A Christian Response |
| | Tacitus would not have had permission to consult the imperial archives, and even if he did, it was not his regular practice to consult written documents. | | | Again, when reporting on the history and beliefs of the Jews, Tacitus' bias led him to say things that were disparaging, which means that out of contempt for Christianity, he would have reported any rumor or indication that Jesus was a fiction, or had not really been sentenced to death. | | | But Tacitus is contemptuous of all easterners--Greeks, Jews, and Egyptians alike--and he clearly thought them unworthy of the curiosity and research he lavished on court intrigues. |
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http://www.tektonics.org/jesusexist/tacitus.html
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| | Tacitus - encyclopedia article about Tacitus. |
| | It is unknown whether he was survived by any children, though the Augustan History reports that the emperor Marcus Claudius Tacitus claimed him as an ancestor and provided for the preservation of his works—but like so much of the Augustan History, this story is probably fraudulent. | | | Although this is probably as close as one can get to a neutral point of view intention in antiquity, there has been much scholarly discussion about Tacitus's alleged "neutrality" (or "partiality" to others, which would make the quote above no more than a figure of speech). | | | These suicides seem, to him, ostentatious and politically useless, while, on the other hand he is sometimes over the hill about the "swansong" speeches of some of those about to commit suicide, for example Cremutius Cordus' speech in Ann. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Tacitus
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| | Cornelius Tacitus |
| | Tacitus had the advantage of some perspective; he wrote some time after the events in question, and had access to state Roman records as well as the memories of some of the people involved. | | | Tacitus seemed to suffer from an internal struggle between his meagre respect for public order and his growing hatred of the evils of authoritarianism and power-politics. | | | His later writing, especially, seethes with this passionate hatred of absolute rule and the power of the autocracy, though noble-born Tacitus never did quite lose his contempt for the common person. |
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http://www.interlog.com/~gilgames/tacitus.htm
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| | Cornelius Tacitus |
| | On (5), it may be suggested that Tacitus didn't expend considerable effort but rather had a servant find what could be found on the Christian sect (not necessarily on Jesus), which would have included the report on their classification as a religio prava. | | | Even though the passage is authentic to Tacitus, it might be argued that Tacitus received his information about the origin of the Christian name from Christians themselves. | | | On (4), Goguel depends on an interpretation of the passage according to which the superstition was checked for several decades until the time of Nero, and this interpretation is unnecessary. |
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http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/tacitus.html
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| | Tacitus: Nero's persecution of the Christians |
| | Tacitus claims that Nero tried to shift the blame to the unpopular Christians, though other sources indicate that their persecution may have been unconnected to the fire. | | | It is not clear exactly why many Romans so detested the new believers, though Christians were often confused with Jews, who were accused of being rebellious (with some reason, since the Jews of Judaea more than once created insurrections against the Roman provincial government) and lazy (since they rested on the Sabbath). | | | In 64 CE Rome underwent a catastrophic fire, which some believed had been set at the orders of the emperor himself. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/tacitus.html
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| | The author of the Annals, surpassing Tacitus with respect to the moral world, wrote as he did, from knowing better the motives that influence men's minds, and the passions that sway their hearts. | | | The belief is general that Tacitus wrote Roman history in the retrograde order, in which Hume wrote the History of England. | | | Statesmen learn the things which are of use to them in government by reading the History, because Tacitus recounts the actions of the world under the imperial rule of Rome. |
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http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8tcbr10.txt
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| | Tacitus and Tiberius |
| | Unfortunately for Tiberius, Tacitus is scrupulous about factual details, but he is willing to select and interpret them to create a false impression (4). | | | Tacitus also creates false impressions through unfavorable topic sentences. | | | His cruelty was also own associated with his scheming nature, reflected mainly alleged involvement or even plotting of various murders. |
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http://janusquirinus.org/essays/Tiberius.html
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| | Britannia Perdomita: The Heroic Landscape of Tacitus's Britain |
| | Tacitus goes so far as to claim that it is only by Gnaeus Agricola's exploits that the Romans can be sure that Britain is in fact an island at all, and not a peninsula belonging to a larger landmass. | | | By constructing a landscape evocative of imperialistic expansion and heroic exploration, Tacitus was able to glorify Gnaeus Agricola while defending his actions and conduct under an unpopular regime. | | | Having done so, he stresses the fact that the northern extremities of the island stretch to the far ends of the earth. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~otherw/writs/sobak.html
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| | t a c i t u s The end. |
| | The middle east and Islam are a major part of the war simply because they are among the most religious and conservative populations in the world. | | | Like you, Tacitus, I read the list of American casualties in Iraq: unlike you, I imagine, I think it quite unlikely that I will run across the name of a friend or relative in those lists. | | | Holbo had a nice piece on Conservatives and "resolve" It's longer than this but also better written and funny, and I think what you are doing is the same thing he trashed Frum for, but on a foreign policy level. |
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http://www.tacitus.org/story/2004/4/30/125923/437
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| | Tacitus |
| | For all its promise, the reign might have been a very tranquil one, would it not have been for another wave of Germanic invasions. | | | One version tells of the very same murderers who had just shortly before assassinated his relative, the governor of Syria called Maximinus, then journeyed from Syria to kill Tacitus. | | | The origins of Marcus Claudius Tacitus are disputed. |
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http://www.roman-empire.net/decline/tacitus.html
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| | LRB Mary Beard : Four-Day Caesar |
| | Tacitus is now generally seen as the most acute, cynical and hard-headed ancient analyst of Roman political power, although there is little evidence to suggest that his books were widely read in the ancient world (and quite a lot to suggest the reverse). | | | 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. | | | For in 97, when Tacitus may well already have been at work on his Histories, the elderly, uncharismatic and childless Emperor Nerva (who had succeeded the murdered Domitian) adopted Trajan as his successor - no doubt mustering many similar arguments. |
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http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n02/bear01_.html
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| | Tacitus and his manuscripts |
| | The allegation originated with Voltaire, and his claims were elaborated by a lawyer named Linguet. | | | It has been suggested that this is because Niccolo had 'acquired' it from the estate of Boccaccio. | | | C.W. MENDELL and S.A. Rycks's Manuscript of Tacitus, American Journal of Philology 72 (1951), pp.337-345. |
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http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/tacitus
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| | Hypotyposeis: Tacitus, Josephus, and Eusebius |
| | I've had a couple of good reactions to view that I had mooted earlier that the Roman historian Tacitus writing only 20 years or so after the Jewish historian Josephus is a witness to some from of the | | | As for the possibility of a pre-Eusebian interpolator of Josephus using Tacitus, that would support my view that a pre-Eusebian (even if interpolated) | | | This is in the same book as the Pontius Pilate reference. |
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http://www.hypotyposeis.org/weblog/2004/12/tacitus-josephus-and-eusebius.html
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| | Amazon.com: Tacitus (Loeb Classical Library, No 312): Books: Tacitus |
| | Tacitus was lucky to have had access to eyewitnesses and the imperial archives while writing these histories. | | | Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. | | | Tacitus tended to explain the events and persons as they existed and then delve into empirical speculation as to motives or causes. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674993454?v=glance
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| | Medieval Sourcebook: Tacitus: Germania, trans. Thomas Gordon |
| | Tacitus was apparently of the equestrian class, was an advocate by training, and had a reputation as an orator, though none of his speeches has survived. | | | Tacitus stands in the front rank of the historians of antiquity for the accuracy of his learning, the fairness of his judgments, the richness, concentration, and precision of his style. | | | He was a contemporary and friend of the younger Pliny, who addressed to him some of his most famous epistles. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/tacitus-germanygord.html
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| | Find Tacitus at myEweb.com |
| | Post or read postings of collectives and individuals sharing their respective commentary and analysis of the war in Iraq and politics in the modern age. | | | Near contemporary historical source for last years of Augustus' reign by Tacitus. | | | A history of the Bible and Tacitus - why God will defend Genesis to Revelation. |
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http://www.myeweb.com/web/index.php?qry_str=Tacitus
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| | tacitus biblio |
| | McCulloch Jr., "The Historical Process and Theories of History in the 'Annals' and 'Histories' of Tacitus," ANRW 2.33.4 (1991) 292848. | | | "Tacitus: Some Sources of his Information," JRS 72 (1982) 6882. | | | Drews, "The Lacuna in Tacitus' Annales Book Five in the Light of Christian Traditions" AJAH 9 (1984) 112122. |
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http://classics.rutgers.edu/tacitus_biblio.htm
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| | RedState |
| | I linked to Tacitus' article from the blog article here... | | | And if it can't produce a different ingredient on the ground, lemme tell you something, that says something about what Iraqis want, and what the people in the region want." [emphasis added] |
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http://www.redstate.com/story/2004/8/7/123128/4371
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| | Bible Query from the Gospels |
| | One purpose of giving these quotes is to put to rest the claim that a few skeptical critics assert, that Jesus never existed. | | | Tacitus (c.55-c.117 A.D.) in Histories Book 5 lists differing speculations on the Jews being from Crete, or Egypt, or Ethiopia, or Assyrians, and then relates an interesting story. | | | Mara Bar-Serapion was an ordinary Syrian man who wrote a letter to his son, Serapion, sometime after 73 A.D. He encourages him to emulate the wise men of history who died for what they believed in, such as Socrates, Pythagoras, and the wise King the Jews executed. |
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http://www.muslimhope.com/BibleAnswers/gospel.htm
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| | Bible Query from Exodus |
| | Moyses, wishing to secure for the future his authority over the nation, gave them a novel form of worship, opposed to all that is practised by other men. | | | Also, Tacitus in Histories Book 5 lists differing speculations on the Jews being from Crete, or Egypt, or Ethiopia, or Assyrians, and then relates an interesting story. | | | However, the large numbers of deaths does not prove or disprove that this was due to a sudden event overnight. |
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http://www.biblequery.org/ex.htm
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| | Tacitus, Roman Imperial Coins of, at WildWinds.com |
| | TAKITON EV C EV CB (sic), radiate, draped & cuirassed bust right; I before / | | | IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG, radiate, cuirassed bust right / PAX AVGVSTI, Pax advancing left holding branch & scepter, VI in ex. | | | IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG, radiate, draped & cuirassed bust right / CLEMENTIA AVG, Tacitus receiving globe from Jupiter, A between, XXI in ex. |
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| | Marcus Claudius Tacitus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Tacitus, besides being a man of immense wealth (which he bequeathed to the state) had considerable literary culture, and was proud to claim descent from the historian Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, whose works he caused to be transcribed at the public expense and placed in the public libraries. | | | This page was last modified 19:50, 28 February 2006. | | | During his brief reign he set on foot some domestic reforms, and sought to revive the authority of the senate, but, after a victory over the Alans near the Palus Maeotis, he was assassinated at Tyana in Cappadocia. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Claudius_Tacitus
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| | Master: Tacitus |
| | Tacitus mentions Christ in the context of persecution of the Christians under Nero: | | | Tacitus drew on previous historical works, on public records, and on his own experience. | | | While the authenticity of some of Tacitus' earlier works is in question, the Annals are generally regarded as both authentic and historically accurate. |
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http://cr.middlebury.edu/public/russian/Bulgakov/public_html/Tacitus.html
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| | Antisemitism: Tacitus |
| | Tacitus rationalizes this myth and seems to believe that Zeus and Kronos were kings. | | | According to Greek-Roman legend, Jupiter (Greek: Zeus) was born on Crete and overthrew his father Saturn (Kronos). | | | home : index : Judaea : article by Tacitus : translation by Kenneth Wellesley |
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| | Medieval Sourcebook: Tacitus: Germania |
| | Such on the whole is the account which I have received of the origin and manners of the entire German people. | | | Tacitus, an important Roman historian, wrote the most detailed early description of the Germans at then end of the first century CE.. | | | This, as a thing about which I have no certain information, I shall leave untouched. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/tacitus1.html
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| | The Rhine River: Tacitus |
| | However, there are features of Tacitus' Germany that I think the Heimatler would have recognized in their own. | | | This last reading, I looked at The Germania from the perspective of landscape -- what I have been studying -- in order to see if the German social scientists of the 19th century found something meaningful in the text. | | | Even in his own context I enjoy Tacitus' writing. |
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http://rhineriver.blogspot.com/2005/03/tacitus.html
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| | Tacitus -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | In the 40 years before Tacitus assumed power the empire was ruled by a succession of usurpers and emperors who had been career army officers. | | | Text of this work describing the Germans by the Roman historian, Tacitus. | | | On the murder of the emperor Aurelian in 275, the army council invited the Senate to select a nobleman as head of state. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9070869?tocId=9070869
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| | Harvard University Press: Agricola. Germania. Dialogue on Oratory |
| | Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 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. | | | 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. |
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| | TACITUS : Data Gaming, Data Visualization, Data Design |
| | We are very proud that after a year and a half in business, TACITUS is 100% debt free, and growing. | | | – for which TACITUS holds patent pending and trademark status – employs game technology and game methodology to create virtual worlds in which large amounts of abstract data can be navigated in 3D. | | | Working with major financial institutions, as well as research scientists, TACITUS has begun development on prototypes for four different applications. |
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| | Faculty, Department of Classics, University of Maryland |
| | He wrote his thesis on the literary, cultural, and historical background of Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus. | | | His other publications include book reviews, an on-line "Reality-Check" review/interview with MovieFone.com of the film Gladiator (spring 2000), and letters published in the Washington Post's BookWorld on ancient historiography. | | | He has been a professor at the University of Maryland since September of 1996. |
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http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/Classics/Faculty/SRutledge
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| | Tacitus - Introduction |
| | In his later years he became interested in writing an unbiased account of those times, starting his account just before Tiberius came to the throne. | | | We do not have a complete account of either the Annals or the Histories, but what has been preserved provides an interesting look at Roman life, written by one who lived close to those times. | | | The electronic text of Tacitus was originally provided by Virginia Tech as an ASCII text file at gopher://gopher.vt.edu:10010/10/33, but it is no longer available there and no link update is known. |
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http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/tacitus
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| | .::The Tacitus Project::. |
| | The work that is being funded is the commercialisation of the findings of the research that was carried out during the Tacitus Project... | | | On July 1st 2004 ECA and UoE received a Scottish Enterprise PROOF OF CONCEPT Fund Award. |
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| | Tacitus - Wikiquote |
| | In De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, Tacitus describes and praises the life of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an eminent Roman general. |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tacitus
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| | Tacitus-class System Defence Boat |
| | As the Tacitus is designed at TL-14, extensive training and support programs were offered as part of the Tacitus sales package. | | | The Tacitus is an Imperial design widely produced during the 5th Frontier War. | | | It was designed primarily as an export comodity to allow lower tech level worlds to supplement their Shukugan Squadrons. |
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http://www.downport.com/bard/bard/sara/sara0016.html
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| | Our modern Tacitus recently wrote, I assume without irony, "There is faith, and there is reason, and while each may inform the other, there comes a time when they must part ways. | | | It is a shame so many have chosen to side with faith rather than reason... |
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| | Great Books and Classics - Tacitus |
| | For more information about Tacitus, visit The Tacitus Home Page at the University of Maryland. | | | All links verified on or after May 8, 2005 |
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