Claim profile

Tacitus

Roman historian and senator (c. 56 – c. 120)

  • Fame79.2
  • Momentum10.0
  • Writers rank#87
Source-basedFalling
  • Fame79.2
  • Momentum10.0
  • Writers rank#87
  • Wikipedia41.9K
Lived 55–120, aged 65
WritersWriter / Author
  • Wikipedia
    92 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    55–120
    Aged 65
Summary
Updated 2026-06-08

The Roman senator who turned imperial history into an art of suspicion. His Annals and Histories dissected emperors with a prose so taut and mordant that every motive looked corrupt, every virtue performative—he wrote power as pathology.

Biography

About

Publius Cornelius Tacitus was born around AD 56 and rose through Roman political ranks to senator. His two major works, the Annals and Histories, originally formed a continuous chronicle from Augustus's death in 14 AD through Domitian's reign ending in 96 AD. The surviving portions of the Annals cover Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, and the Year of the Four Emperors in 69 AD. He also wrote a treatise on oratory in dialogue form, an ethnography of Germania, and a biography of his father-in-law Agricola, the general who led much of Rome's conquest of Britain. He died around 120 AD, leaving behind frag…

Voice

In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Tacitus

Tacitus
saidundated
The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse.
— Chapter 2
Tacitus
saidundated
Mercury is the deity whom they chiefly worship, and on certain days they deem it right to sacrifice to him even with human victims.
— Chapter 9
Tacitus
saidundated
No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
— Chapter 19
Tacitus
saidundated
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
— Chapter 35
Tacitus
saidundated
Dwelling on one side of the Chauci and Chatti, the Cherusci long cherished, unassailed, an excessive and enervating love of peace.
— Chapter 36
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Where to find them

Platforms

No platforms connected yet.

By the numbers

Score breakdown

The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.

Fame
Falling
79.2
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum10.0
Historical25.5
Now attention28.4
Source confidence60.0
Completeness60.0
Global rank
—
Country rank
—
Category rank
#87
Receipts

Sources

  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
    High confidence
  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
    High confidence
  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence