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Tacitus: The Life and Legacy of the Ancient Rome’s Greatest Historian

De: Charles River Editors
Narrado por: Steve Knupp
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 In the year 97 A.D., in a city still catching its breath after 15 years of fear, a Roman consul rose to speak over the body of an old soldier. The dead man was Lucius Verginius Rufus, who, during his long life, had been offered the empire three times and had refused it each time. Rufus had lived to 83, dying in an ordinary accident after breaking his hip while rehearsing a speech of thanks. The consul who delivered the eulogy was Cornelius Tacitus, who was in his early 40s and at the height of his career. Tacitus had a reputation for eloquence that filled the courts and the Senate house, and Pliny the Younger, who was in the crowd, remembered the moment for the rest of his life. Pliny the Younger noted it was the crowning touch to Rufus's good fortune that the finest speaker in Rome had praised him.Nearly 2,000 years later, Tacitus is known solely for his seminal history of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, and Pliny the Youngers reference is one of the few moments in Tacitus's personal life for which modern historians have any information. It is certainly paradoxical that a master of the spoken and written word, who wrote the most penetrating contemporaneous history of the Roman emperors ever composed, a work soaked in the psychology of power and fear, wrote virtually nothing about himself. The facts of his own life have to be pieced together from stray remarks in his books, a handful of his friend's letters, one inscription from a provincial city, and a broken slab of stone. Tacitus judged the emperors with a cold and permanent authority, and he did it from inside the system he judged, having climbed its ladder rung by rung under the very emperors he later condemned, yet its not entirely clear what his actual first name was.The world gave him a suitable name and then mocked it. Tacitus, in Latin, means the silent one, or the man who holds his tongue. No name ever fit its bearer worse in life and better in the end. In the courts, he was anything but silent, and his works outlived his own voice despite nearly vanishing in the centuries after his death. They survived through a few monks copies, which in itself is a small miracle given Roman antipathy to early Christians.Tacituss story began with a boy born somewhere in the provinces near the middle of the 1st century A.D., into an empire that was reaching the pinnacle of its power while its subjects were forgetting what freedom felt like. century, into an empire that had just begun to forget what freedom felt like. He went on to marry into the household of a famous general, survived a tyrant, buried his friends, held important offices in Rome, and then went home and wrote what he had seen power do to men. In the process, he became one of the ancient worlds most invaluable sources.©2026 Charles River Editors (P)2026 Charles River Editors Antigua Histórico Mundial
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