Thucydides & Tacitus 
The perspectives of two ancient historians, Thucydides the Athenian and Cornelius
Tacitus the
Roman, offer us the opportunity to learn from how they presented ....
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The Roman Emperor Nero
.... The murders of Senators outraged the
Roman historians, but other emperors did the same .... that followed, could practically leap from the pages of
Tacitus to the ....
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Greco-Roman Culture and Civilization
....
Tacitus was the
Roman historian who carried on the traditions of Thucydides and Herodotus; it is he who preserved a significant fraction of what we know about ....
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Roman Domination
.... Nothing in this series of events was calculated to uphold
Roman prestige; as one modern writer notes, "
Tacitus' account ... seems ....
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The Roman conquest of Britain by Claudius
.... The efficiency of the
Roman machinery of conquest had increased considerably by this .... Survivors had drifted to Britain and, as
Tacitus said, "not a man returned ....
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Christianity in the Roman Empire
.... Thus, the
Roman government had a longstanding agreement with the Jewish race, a .... mention we have of any Christian persecution is related by
Tacitus, who cites ....
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Early Greek Writers of History
.... showing how they are superior enough to be good adversaries but inferior still to the
Roman people and to
Roman civilization. In the Germania,
Tacitus seems to ....
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The Second Roman War The Second Roman War was in its most
.... (In some modern popular treatments, the moral weighting may be reversed, but as with
Tacitus' contrast of Germanic virtue to
Roman vice, reversing the moral ....
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Apuleius' The Golden Ass
.... If one recalls the Annals of
Tacitus, written some half-century before Apuleius' time, like the
Roman citizen of the 2nd century one will soon note how easily ....
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The Family in Mesopotamia & Homeric Greece
.... A reading of sources from the Greek and
Roman era shows that the nature of .... The excerpt from
Tacitus shows the nature of family relationships as they serve the ....
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Rediscovery of Pompeii
.... and one of the commanders of the
Roman fleet stationed nineteen miles away to the northwest wrote his account of the eruption to the famous historian
Tacitus. ....
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Pompeii and Public Architecture
.... and one of the commanders of the
Roman fleet stationed nineteen miles away to the northwest wrote his account of the eruption to the famous historian
Tacitus. ....
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I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
.... it not for other historians' writings of the period, Suetonius and
Tacitus being two .... His biographical interpretations of the
Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to ....
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Intermingling of Races in Early Civilizations
.... resemblances between those said to be Semitic (ie, Arabs and Jews) and African Negroes, as well as the evidence from the
Roman historian
Tacitus of the so ....
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Black/White History & Human Evolution
.... resemblances between those said to be Semitic (ie, Arabs and Jews) and African Negroes, as well as the evidence from the
Roman historian
Tacitus of the so ....
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Praetorian Guard Under the Julio-Claudians QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS ...
.... was made, they accepted the choice offered them" (
Tacitus XII, 66, pp. 282-83). The reign that followed made Nero Hollywood's favorite
Roman Emperor (the ....
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Jewish and American Law
.... while still dependent, with legal personality was observed in Jewish law at least as early as the first century CE: the
Roman historian "
Tacitus deemed it a ....
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The Jesuits and European Expansion
.... role of
Roman Catholic missionaries in Canada as follows: "
Roman Catholicism was .... about "barbarians" like the Scythians, and Romans such as
Tacitus, who dealt ....
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Racine's Play, Britannicus
.... Racine does refer in his prefaces to his source material in
Tacitus, and Yarrow .... There is no
Roman beauty whom my love / Does not make proud and honoured" (II.2 ....
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Vampire Legend
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Tacitus cites Agricola, the
Roman governor in Britain, as saying, 'The very seclusion and remoteness of our glory here in Britain, the mystery lent by distance ....
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Vampires, Dracula and Women
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Tacitus cites Agricola, the
Roman governor in Britain, as saying, 'The very seclusion and remoteness of our glory here in Britain, the mystery lent by distance ....
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