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CHARACTER vs NOTORIETY. Why True Leaders Appear Late:Tacitus & Plutarch on Character and Display

Rumble 23 Dec 2025
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Gladiatrix: Scent of a Woman, in the Arena

Roman Empire Times 08 Dec 2025
When Tacitus refers to the "women of rank" (Annals) who appeared in the amphitheater, he uses the term feminae, denoting respectable wives and daughters of Roman citizens ... Tacitus and Cassius Dio ...
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The Ancient Blueprint Behind Every Modern Stadium

Roman Empire Times 01 Dec 2025
Those wooden arcades — home to cooks, astrologers, and prostitutes — kindled the AD 64 blaze (Tacitus) ... senators had the podium front (Suetonius), equites sat behind (Tacitus), and men ...
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A Roman’s Manual for Survival

Roman Empire Times 27 Nov 2025
By the eighteenth century, the situation had not improved ... Sallust, echoing the old parallel between word and deed, argued that writing great actions was itself a form of doing them—a view later endorsed by Pliny in a letter to Tacitus.
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The Ugly Truth Behind Emperor Augustus’ Legendary Roman Myths

Greek Reporter 27 Nov 2025
Bust of Augustus, celebrated as Rome’s savior, whom Tacitus recast as a master of propaganda—masking autocracy as duty, trading liberty for the Pax Romana, and setting the template for modern power ... However, Tacitus did not accept this narrative.
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Quintilian: A Theory of Education that Left its Mark from Antiquity Onwards

Roman Empire Times 08 Nov 2025
Public domain ... Tacitus condemned Afer for greed and cruelty; Quintilian, however, revered his professional mastery, recalling how the old man taught him to question witnesses and how Afer would sigh,“It is all over with our profession.”.
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Nero Unmasked: The Fire, the Fame, and the Fury of Rome’s Most Infamous Ruler (Part 1)

Roman Empire Times 21 Oct 2025
Our portrait of Nero is filtered through the eyes of Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio — historians whose agendas colored their narratives ... Tacitus laments that he relied on Seneca as his speechwriter rather than composing his own.
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Valerius Maximus: The Collector of Roman Virtue and Vice

Roman Empire Times 19 Oct 2025
One way to measure what Valerius “forgets” is to set him beside Tacitus ... Tacitus sought to expose the shadows of power; Valerius sought to show how virtue might still survive within them.
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Did the Romans Know Nessie? Exploring Roman Links to the Loch Ness Monster

Roman Empire Times 18 Oct 2025
The name Loch Ness conjures an image faster than any citation ... They do not name locations ... St ... Tacitus’s Agricola recounts the governor’s northern campaigns in Caledonia without a single aquatic beast in the Great Glen.
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Flamma: The Gladiator who Refused his Freedom Four Times

Roman Empire Times 05 Oct 2025
Although no gladiator ever left behind a personal record — or if one ever did, it has long been lost — much can still be learned from Roman writers who described the games in remarkable detail, including Suetonius, Martial, and Tacitus.
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Titus and Domitian: Brotherhood on Rome’s Imperial Stage

Roman Empire Times 01 Oct 2025
With Tacitus’s Histories and Dio’s Roman History surviving only in fragments for this period, Suetonius provides the fullest surviving narrative of Domitian’s reign and the only continuous treatment of the Flavian dynasty.
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From Circus Maximus to Amazon: The Real Story of Scorpus

Roman Empire Times 25 Sep 2025
Credits ... Freeborn Romans were discouraged from the track; when an emperor pursued racing, moralists bristled—Tacitus called Nero’s passion a foedum studium (“disgraceful desire,” Annals), a symptom of flawed character ... P.
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Inside Roman Society: How Ordinary Life Shaped an Extraordinary Empire (Part 2)

Roman Empire Times 25 Sep 2025
Tacitus described the collective punishment after the prefect Pedanius Secundus was murdered in 61 CE.“When a slave murdered the city prefect … four hundred slaves, men and women alike, ...
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Inside Roman Society: How Ordinary Life Shaped an Extraordinary Empire (Part 1)

Roman Empire Times 23 Sep 2025
Tacitus, recalling Nero’s rebuilding after the Great Fire, noted how regulations now required stone walls, courtyards, and access to water.“The height of buildings was to ... Tacitus, Annals.
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Frontinus: Rome’s Master of Strategy and Water

Roman Empire Times 19 Sep 2025
Tacitus too judged him to be “vir magnus quantum licebat”, as great a man as the times would allow.“He was a great man so far as it was possible in those times.”. Tacitus, Agricola 17.2.

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