Historiae
Rome
T
Tacitus, Cornelius
Tacitus, Cornelius
c. 56 CE–c. 120 CE · Rome
Cornelius Tacitus (c. 56-c. 120 CE) was a Roman senator and one of the greatest historians of antiquity, author of the Annals and the Histories, which chronicle the Roman Empire in the 1st century CE. His other works include the Germania, an ethnographic account of the Germanic peoples, and the Agricola, a biography of his father-in-law. He is admired for his penetrating analysis of power and his terse, incisive Latin style.
Life journeyclick any stop, or use ←/→
✦
Stop 1 of 1
RomeרומאItaly
We know they were here, but the specifics of what they did at this stop aren’t recorded yet in our corpus.
About Rome
Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.
In Rome at the same time
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Pliny, the Elder, Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius, Petronius Arbiter
Across the traditions, in Rome at the same time
In the same place & time
✦
Sages whose lives overlapped with Tacitus, Cornelius’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
- Peter the Apostle· Rome
- Paul the Apostle· Rome
- John the Apostle· Rome
- Aquila· Rome
- Priscilla· Rome
- Berenice· Rome
- Josephus· Rome
- Rabbi Yehoshua· Rome
- Rabban Gamliel of Yavneh· Rome
- Eleazar ben Azaryah· Rome
- Sixtus I, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Alexander I, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Evaristus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Anacletus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Linus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Ignatius of Antioch· Rome
- Mark the Evangelist· Rome
- Luke the Evangelist· Rome
In the same tradition
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Pliny, the Elder, Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius, Petronius Arbiter, Musonius Rufus, Persius, Quintilian, Titus, Lucan, Martial, Valerius Flaccus, Gaius, Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius), Plutarch, Domitian, Epictetus, Juvenal
The world in their lifetime
✦
Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Tacitus, Cornelius’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.