Cornelius Tacitus

When did Cornelius Tacitus live?

Cornelius Tacitus is dated c. AD 56 – c. 120 in the archive, which places Cornelius Tacitus in the Apostolic Fathers (AD 70–130). The dating is traditional and approximate; the archive marks it as uncertain rather than fixing a year the sources do not give.

What did Cornelius Tacitus write?

Cornelius Tacitus has 1 catalogued writing in the archive: The Annals.

Which early sources mention Cornelius Tacitus?

Cornelius Tacitus is named in 2 primary-source passages catalogued here, drawn from Tertullian and Paulus Orosius. Every passage is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.

Where was Cornelius Tacitus from?

The archive associates Cornelius Tacitus with Rome.

Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus.

Cornelius Tacitus… in the fifth book of his histories, beginning the account of the Jewish war, argues about the origin of that nation.

[Orosius cites Tacitus by name as his authority for events long before his own time.]

Orosius's Historiae adversus paganos, seven books written in Africa in AD 417–418 at Augustine's request — the first world history written from a Christian standpoint, and the standard work of reference on antiquity for the medieval West. Critical text: Karl Zangemeister, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum 5 (1882). English translations: Irving Woodworth Raymond (Columbia, 1936), Roy J. Deferrari, Fathers of the Church 50 (1964), and A. T. Fear, Translated Texts for Historians 54 (Liverpool, 2010); none of the three is in the public domain, so quotations here are rendered from Zangemeister's Latin.