Tacitus and the Massacre at Tarracina (Hist., 3.76-77)

Abstract

Tacitus is one of our earliest successors of Flavian historiography, not only as a traditional compiler of contemporary historians, but also as a vociferous critic at the end of Hist., 2.101.1: Scriptores temporum, qui potiente rerum Flauia domo monimenta belli huiusce composuerunt, curam pacis et amorem rei publicae, corruptas in adulationem causas, tradidere: nobis [...] uidentur. “The historians of the period, who during the ascendancy of the Flavian family composed the chronicles of this ...