The Annals Vol 3

Description

The two substantial works of Tacitus is the First Jewish-Roman War in A. D. 70. The important unfilled spaces included in the existing texts including the missing parts of The Annals, which is equivalent to four books in extent. The official reference of Tacitus’s texts are of the Roman state, the acta senatus – the recording of a memorandum in the session and the acta divina populi Romani – a collection of the acts of the government, and news of the court and capital. He also read accumulations of emperors’ dialogues such as Tiberius and Claudius. He is broadly described as a principled historian who is keen and conscientious to his citations. The slight deficit in The Annals might be when Tacitus died even before completing and reviewing his writings.

Tacitus’s some other sources are Marcius Churius Rugus, a Roman consul suffectus during the reign of the emperor Claudius. Rufus is also a senator, governor, and historian; Fabius Rusticus, a Roman historian who was quoted by Tacitus with Livy, as the most graphic among ancient and modern historians; and Gaius Plinius Secundus or Pliny, the elder, a Roman writer, naturalist, and natural philosopher, he is also a navy and an army commander during the early times of the Roman Empire and a close friend of the emperor Vespasian. He is known for his writing an encyclopedic work, naturalis Historia, which became one of the origins for every encyclopedia. Pliny, the elder, wrote bella Germaniae and an ancient text which was the preservation of the works of Aufidius Bassus. Tacitus also used epistolarium, a compilation of letters. He also used reference from illustrium Virorum. A compilation of books by those who were incompatible with rulers. Its contents were explaining devotions by martyrs to liberty, giving emphasis to men who committed suicide.

Tacitus’s historical style is equated as sharp and has disheartened views on political regime, a timeline of events, moral lessons, and drastic records.
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