The Annals by Tacitus, composed just 91 years after the death of Jesus, provide according to some invaluable data about his ...

Tacitus discusses the persecution of Christ's followers, who were spreading into Rome from Judaea, writing how 'an arrest was made of all who pleaded guilty to being Christian.' 'Covered with the ...

Roman historian Tacitus' ancient manuscripts called Annals have surfaced online. They discuss the persecution of Christians ...

With heavy sarcasm, Tacitus called the outcome a "glorious victory comparable with bygone triumphs." He knew that the Pax Romana – the peace of Rome – was underpinned by brutality and war ...

The historian Tacitus called them “a people which never ... then promptly broke it. Rome had been betrayed one time too many. During the second invasion Trajan didn’t mess around.

Rome in the first century was carefully chronicled by Roman historians, particularly Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio Cassius – that is why we know so much about it. Tacitus was a political player in ...

daughters - and particularly - mothers of Roman emperors are some of the most colourful characters of Rome in the early imperial age; as described by our major sources - the Roman authors Tacitus ...

Tacitus, Cassius Dio ... Visit the Colosseum in Rome today, so prominent in both Gladiator movies, and just a few blocks away you’ll find standing the Arch of Titus, showing Roman soldiers ...

The Emperor Domition ordered Agricola back to Rome. For Tacitus, Agricola's son-in-law, Scotland had been "let go", however Rome was facing a more pressing military crisis on the Rhine and Danube ...