Tacitus was a Roman orator and public official. He is widely regarded to have been among the most important Roman historians and to have been one o...

Roman historian Tacitus was born circa 56 CE, perhaps in northern Italy (Cisalpine Gaul) or, more probably, in southern Gaul (Gallia Narbonensis, o...

Germania, describing the Germanic tribes at the Roman frontier on the Rhine, was written by Roman historian Tacitus in 98 CE.