![]() ![]() There were several conspiracies to remove the eccentric, increasingly tyrannical emperor Rome itself was still suffering from the big fire that had destroyed the city in 64 and in the end, the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors (69) broke out, culminating in the accession of Vespasian. The last years of the reign of Nero must have impressed the student. ![]() The young man was sent to Rome to study what is called rhetorics, which is not just the art of speaking in public, but in fact a grand cultural education that included everything a magistrate needed to know. His father was a wealthy man and belonged to the second tier of the Roman elite, the knights, or - to use a more stately expression - the equestrian order. Tacitus was born in c.55, perhaps in southern Gaul. Early Career Roman official, first quarter of the second century Tacitus (c.55-c.120): Roman historian, author of a/o the Histories and the Annals. ![]()
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