Tacitus
Roman historian and senator (c. 56 - c. 120) · Writers · Lived 55 to 120 · aged 65
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Something wrong?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.
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, The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse.
Mercury is the deity whom they chiefly worship, and on certain days they deem it right to sacrifice to him even with human victims.
No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
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About this person
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 fragments that shaped how every generation since has read imperial ambition.
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