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Tacitus was not an emperor. He was a historian.
The Roman historian Tacitus called Christianity a living torch. He also used the words Christ and Christians in his writings.
Tacitus wrote "Germania" .
AnswerThe second-century Roman historian, Tacitus, was not a Christian. His strongly held republican views led him to take a harsh and generally biased view of the Roman emperors who had preced him. He was often a critic of Nero, although he does say of Nero that "his pledges were not dishonoured, and many [unpopular] decisions were made by the Senate itself". It was Tacitus who claimed that Nero punished the Christians of Rome unfairly for the Great Fire of Rome.
Boudicca and her followers pillaged and burned Camulodunum (Colchester), Verulamium (St. Albans), the part of Londinium (London.) Tacitus, the Roman historian records that they chopped up the 9th Legion, and killed about 70,000 Roman sympathisers and Roman citizens.
Tacitus was not an emperor. He was a historian.
Tacitus
The Roman historian Tacitus called Christianity a living torch. He also used the words Christ and Christians in his writings.
Tacitus wrote "Germania" .
Tacitus is known as being a historian and Roman senator during the Roman Empire, there are several partial surviving works and writings of Tacitus left such as the Annals and the Histories.
The "Germania" was written by the Roman historian Tacitus around 98 AD. It is an ethnographic work on the Germanic tribes living outside the Roman Empire.
It was the name given to the area by Tacitus, the Roman historian when he wrote about it in AD 98.
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AnswerThe second-century Roman historian, Tacitus, was not a Christian. His strongly held republican views led him to take a harsh and generally biased view of the Roman emperors who had preced him. He was often a critic of Nero, although he does say of Nero that "his pledges were not dishonoured, and many [unpopular] decisions were made by the Senate itself". It was Tacitus who claimed that Nero punished the Christians of Rome unfairly for the Great Fire of Rome.
Tacitus wrote the account of Seneca's suicide-farewell party.
Nero did not believe anything about comets. The ancient Roman historian Tacitus reported that a comet occurred during the reign of Nero.
The Roman historian Tacitus is the author of "Annals," a historical account of Rome from the death of Augustus to 70 AD. His work is a valuable source for understanding the political and social dynamics of the early Roman Empire.