Today’s symposium shall begin with the words of two great Americans, and — gasp! — two foreign people: P.T. Barnum, H.L. Mencken, Charles Baudelaire and Cornelius Tacitus. Today’s symposium shall ...
Continuing from last time, further criticism that the ancient Roman historian Tacitus was an unreliable historian and showed bias in favor of Christianity is based upon his use of certain words.
A passage from a letter of Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus) to the historian Tacitus (Publius Cornelius Tacitus): “Librum tuum legi et, quam diligentissime potui, adnotavi quae ...