When Did Tacitus Write the Annals?
Without Anger and Partiality. Tacitus Was a Roman Senator, Who Wrote the Annals in the Early Second Century Ad, During the Reigns of Trajan (Ad 98-117) and...
Without anger and partiality. Tacitus was a Roman senator, who wrote the Annals in the early second century AD, during the reigns of Trajan (AD 98-117) and Hadrian (AD 117-138).
When did Tacitus publish the Annals?
The period covered by the Histories (written before the Annals) starts at the beginning of the year AD 69, i.e. six months after the death of Nero and continues to the death of Domitian in 96. It is not known when Tacitus began writing the Annals, but he was well into writing it by AD 116.
Why did Tacitus write Annals?
The main motivation behind Tacitus' writing of the Annals was his horror and disgust at the decadence of the Roman empire. ... In his portrait of the decline of the Roman Empire's moral nature, he is arguing that the Republic bred people of better moral stature than the empire and is arguing for moral and political reform.
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