Promotional graphic for Humor in the Historical Works of Tacitus by Emma Warhover. On the left, the book cover features a red title panel above a classical illustration of a chaotic Roman scene. On the right, a stylized vintage illustration shows two ancient figures in animated interaction. The background is split tan and red with the University of Michigan Press logo.

😆 "Humor in the Historical Works of Tacitus"
In this sharp re-reading of #Tacitus, Emma Warhover shows how humour in his dense prose exposes imperial hypocrisy and absurdity, revealing wit as a deliberate critical tool at the heart of #Roman historiography.
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#Tacitus about the #Romans: “they create a wasteland & call it peace.”

#Iran #Trump

Pauci bona libertatis in cassum disserere, plures bellum pavescere, alii cupere
“Few people began vainly to discuss the goods of liberty, but most began either to fear, or to desire, the advent of war.”
#Tacitus #AncientBlueSky

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"…they make a wasteland, they call it peace."
~ Tacitus

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#war #Tacitus #FauxPeace #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

Your imaginary freedom would be insulted and oppressed by a savage master; and the expulsion of the Romans would be succeeded by the eternal hostilities of the Barbarian conquerors.
(1176) #edwardgibbon #declineandfall #tacitus
Tacitus, paraphrased by Gibbon.

It is for your sake, not our own, that we guard the barrier of the Rhine against the ferocious Germans, who have so often attempted, and who will always desire, to exchange the solitude of their woods and morasses for the wealth and fertility of Gaul.
(1176) #edwardgibbon #declineandfall #tacitus

Descent Of Emperor Tacitus From Historian Tacitus Now, more and more, we have been revealing the true nature of ancient history. By now you should understand that we have known vastly more about how to study ancient history than has been taught throu...

#Discover #Ancient #Genealogy #AncientBlueSky #RomanEmpire #Tacitus #Emperors #RomanEmperors

Descent Of Emperor Tacitus From Historian Tacitus
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Discovering Tacitus As Neratius Priscus Discovering Tacitus As Neratius Priscus

This paper was written to give people a relatively simple example of ancient royals using alias names. The historian known as Tacitus has been a trusted authority on 1st century history. But, only royals were writing & they used pen names to hide that fact. #Tacitus

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... oder ... vielleicht aber auch ...

#Tacitus #Germania #latein #Latin

#Drew up some #digital #designs of the different character #eyes. From left to right we have #Battum, #Septima, and lastly #Tacitus. All these characters are the main three of my #book #Voiceless

#Nikilium #Nikiliumart #art #dailyart #digitalart #oc #original #characters #protagonist #antagonist

I wasn't satisfied with #Tacitus #palace #outfit He now has a solid black unisex one peice, sheer pants/sleeves, and bells on his cuffs/chains. This is the #protagonist of my #book #Voiceless .

#art #daily #dailyart #sketching #practice #drawing #oc #originalcharacter #sketch

Some #sketching of #Tacitus in two different #outfits . The left is his commoner, the right is his #palace wear. This is my #protagonist from my #book #Voiceless . The royals really like their servants chained.

#art #dailyart #Daily #fantasy #halfelf

Doing some #eye #studies for the ##maincharacter in my #book #voiceless

#septima #battum #tacitus #Destillus #art #practice #nikilium

Tacitus was especially good at describing the effect the tyrant has on the people around him. When the tyrant first takes power, there is a “rush into servitude” as great swarms of sycophants suck up to the great man. The flattery must forever escalate and grow more fawning, until every follower’s dignity is shorn away. Then comes what you might call the disappearance of the good, as morally healthy people lie low in order to survive. Meanwhile, the whole society tends to be anesthetized. The relentless flow of appalling events eventually overloads the nervous system; the rising tide of brutality, which once seemed shocking, comes to seem unremarkable. As the disease of tyranny progresses, citizens may eventually lose the habits of democracy — the art of persuasion and compromise, interpersonal trust, an intolerance for corruption, the spirit of freedom, the ethic of moderation. “It is easier to crush men’s spirits and their enthusiasm than to revive them,” Tacitus wrote. “Indeed, there comes over us an attachment to the very enforced inactivity, and the idleness hated at first is finally loved.”

»The flattery must forever escalate and grow more fawning, until every follower’s dignity is shorn away. ..

.. The relentless flow of appalling events eventually overloads the nervous system; the rising tide of brutality, which once seemed shocking, comes to seem unremarkable.«

#Tacitus

Check out the book 'Creating Christianity' by Henry Davis. #BookSky💙📚 #Humanity #RomanHistory #AcademicSky #NewResearch #NewMethodology #ChurchHistory #JewishRevolts #TheJewishWar #FlaviusJosephus #Tacitus #Suetonius #PlinyTheYounger #Epistles #Gospels #EpistlesOfPaul #EpistlesOfPliny #Panegyrius

Attended a live recording of the excellent new podcast @instantclassicspod.bsky.social
hosted by Dame @wmarybeard.bsky.social and Charlotte Higgins in the ruins of the Roman amphitheater under #Guildhall - good timing as I tackle #Tacitus #Agricola podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... #classics

Quoting History

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” — Tacitus

When corruption spreads, power hides behind paper. 👀🔥

#Brewminate #History #Tacitus

"...fragments of epi-graphic evidence, show that Wales was divided into a minimum of five tribal areas roughly approximating to broad geographical divisions."
- from Iron Age Communities in Britain
by Barry Cunliffe (2005)

#wales #ironage #tribal #ptolemy #tacitus #geographical #regions

The 1st Map of Europe: A Latin map of the British Isles (Insulae Britannicae): Ireland (Hybernia) and Britain (Alvion), based on Ptolemy's Geography. Note the positioning of Scotland at a right angle to the rest of Britain.; "Knowledge of tribal groupings rests largely upon the writings of the geographer Ptolemy whose lists, taken together with descriptive accounts by Tacitus and other fragments of epi- graphic evidence, show that Wales was divided into a minimum of five tribal areas roughly approximating to broad geographical divisions." - from Iron Age Communities in Britain by Barry Cunliffe (2005) Map: Descriptio Prime Tabulae Europae from LlywelynII on Wikipedia #wales #ironage #tribal #ptolemy #tacitus #geographical #regions

"Knowledge of tribal groupings rests largely upon the writings of the geographer Ptolemy whose lists, taken together with descriptive accounts by Tacitus and other..."
- from Iron Age Communities in Britain
by Barry Cunliffe (2005)

#wales #ironage #tribal #ptolemy #tacitus #geographical #regions

“I, Civilis: ‘Roman Identity’ in Tacitus’ Batavian Revolt”
(Connor Hickey)

Postgraduate #seminar, 📆15 October ⏰5pm.
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate

Enquiries: classicspgrrep@st-andrews.ac.uk.

All postgraduate seminars:
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#ClassicsBluesky #Tacitus

Thanks @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social for including prawn crackers, pig's rectums & #Tacitus in yr diary. Some excellent #political nuggets. Vital reading for any who wish to make sense of the #UK political landscape.

@paulinsc.bsky.social #History #AncientHistory #Literature #AncientLiterature #AncientClassics #ClassicalHistory #Classics/AncientWorld #RomanEmpire #Tacitus #FlaviusJosephus #Plutarch #Suetonius #PlinyTheYounger #Appian #FlaviusArrian #Seneca #PhiloOfAlexandria #Frontinus #Fronto #Paterculus #Bible

Bust of Marcus Claudius Tacitus

#OTD 25 Sept 275, Marcus Claudius Tacitus became emperor — the last ever chosen by the Senate. His brief reign saw Aurelian deified & his killers punished, marking the end of senatorial influence in Rome.
#RomanHistory #OTD #Tacitus #RomanEmpire

Agricola’s Crossings Over the past few weeks since I wrote a post about the account by Tacitus of a potential Roman invasion of Ireland led by Agricola I’ve been thinking about a couple of open questions and digging around in various commentaries to try to shed light on them. Both of these pertain to the first section […]

Agricola’s Crossings Over the past few weeks since I wrote a post about the account by Tacitus of a potential Roman invasion of Ireland led by Agricola I’ve been thinking about a couple of open questions and digging around in various commentaries to try to shed light on them. Both of these pertain to the first section […]

Agricola’s Crossings Over the past few weeks since I wrote a post about the account by Tacitus of a potential Roman invasion of Ireland led by Agricola I’ve been thinking about a couple of open questions and digging around in various commentaries to try to shed light on them. Both of these pertain to the first section […]

Agricola’s Crossings Over the past few weeks since I wrote a post about the account by Tacitus of a potential Roman invasion of Ireland led by Agricola I’ve been thinking about a couple of open questions and digging around in various commentaries to try to shed light on them. Both of these pertain to the first section […]

#LoebClassicalLibrary #RomanEmpire #RomanEmperors #Rome #AncientRome #Roma #Latin #Greek #RomanHistory #AncientHistory #WorldHistory #Research #ReferenceBooks #Classics #AncientClassics #ClassicalHistory #FlaviusJosephus #Suetonius #Tacitus #PlinyTheYounger #Seneca #Plutarch #Claudian #Tertullian

Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

Tacitus (Annals 3.27)

#AmWriting #HistoricalFiction #RomanEmpire #Quotes #WritersLife
#History #Classics #AncientWisdom #Tacitus