There is an unusually large amount of information on this campaign because Tacitus composed an historical biography of Agricola who was his father-in-law.
Tacitus wrote that Nero's death was celebrated by the Roman upper classes but was somewhat lamented by the lower classes who had often gained from the Emperor's excesses.
Tacitus belonged to an old Roman noble family that had fallen on hard times under the Julio-Claudian emperors, but which was restored to prominence during Vespasian's reign.
This latter trait may have been why he was so favourably depicted by Tacitus, Suetonius and others, who were members of or had connections to the senatorial and political classes in Rome.
But whether Vespasian's qualities as an emperor and the contrasting chaos of Nero's reign were inventions of Tacitus and Suetonius in their histories and biographies may never be fully known.
Tacitus possibly spent time here, as well as Pliny the Elder, who in the 70s AD was compiling his famous Natural History, one of the foremost encyclopaedias of knowledge compiled in Roman times.
" What a strange present on the part of the Bishop to a young seminarist, " he ventured to say as he turned over the leaves of the superb Tacitus, whose gilt edges seemed to horrify him.
Was he one of Rome's greatest emperors, who successfully restored order after the chaos of the civil war or was he a power–hungry demagogue who was later presented in the best light possible by Tacitus and Suetonius?
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塔西佗史学大致涵盖宏观、中观
于这次活动的信息量异常大，因为塔西佗为他的岳父阿格里科拉撰写
一部历史传记。
煌。
