AnnalsCornelius Annales B. Tacitus, J. Yardley, Barrett, Anthony
Annals
by Cornelius Annales B. Tacitus, J. Yardley, Barrett, Anthony
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on “Ask HN: Books Worth Rereading Periodically?” ↗…system based on mathematics would be preferable. This is really not a complicated idea. “Corruptissima republica plurimae leges. [The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.]” — Tacitus, the Annals ca. AD 69
on “You are committing a crime right now” ↗"And now bills were passed, not only for national objects but for individual cases, and laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt." —Tacitus, Annals, Book III, 27.
on “You commit three felonies a day” ↗…discourse I'm talking about: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction Second, my complaint is that it's not even considered as a possibility that Tacitus is telling the truth. In relation to The Annals (a public document concerning public affairs thousands of contemporaries would have had firsthand experiences of) do you really think it's a forgery? Or do you really think Tacitus is so biased he can't…
on “Tacitus’ Perfect Man” ↗…again broke out not only in Judæa, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular. — Tacitus' Annals 15.44 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians_in_t... This was a complex period in history, I would be wary of anyone making sweeping judgements or applying modern political coloring…
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_(Tacitus) Tacitus talks abut Jesus in The Annals, and if we don't take that collection at face value, a lot of our understanding of Rome becomes shaky.
on “What Archaeology Is Telling Us About the Real Jesus” ↗…https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-Roman-documents-that-tel... As for the Wikipedia sources, in particular: "Roman historian Tacitus referred to 'Christus' and his execution by Pontius Pilate in his Annals (written ca. AD 116), book 15, chapter 44. The very negative tone of Tacitus' comments on Christians make the passage extremely unlikely to have been forged by a Christian scribe. The Tacitus reference…
on “The curious case of the weapon that didn't exist” ↗How sad to become old :) It's there in Tacitus' Annals, book 6, chapters XVI and XVII; Suetonius, life of Tiberius, chapter XLVIII. No mention of the bankers' names though.
on “Italian Financial Crisis: A.D. 33 ” ↗"And now bills were passed, not only for national objects but for individual cases, and laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt." —Tacitus, Annals Book III, 27
on “As Criminal Laws Proliferate, More Are Ensnared” ↗The original, from Tacitus's Annals: About the same time Plautius Silvanus, the praetor, for unknown reasons, threw his wife Apronia out of a window. When summoned before the emperor by Lucius Apronius, his father-in-law, he replied incoherently,…
on “Tiberius, Imperial Detective” ↗Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges. -- Tacitus, Annals That is, a corrupt republic needs more laws. As I would put it: d(lawcount)/d(depravity) > 0
on “Ask HN: How many laws are there in each country?” ↗I see you got in a debate below, but Jesus is mentioned in Tacitus's Annals, and if you don't believe those, then you don't believe a lot of what we accept for fact about Rome in the First Century.
on “What Archaeology Is Telling Us About the Real Jesus” ↗…him their enemy makes them reliable sources): the Roman historian and senator Tacitus referred to Jesus, his execution by Pontius Pilate, and the existence of early Christians in Rome in his final work, Annals (written c. AD 116), book 15, chapter 44. Now Tacitus did not confirm that Jesus was a "saviour", ascribing a religious role to a historic figure is an act of faith, perhaps based on his message of love…
on “Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin” ↗Please give a citation of a source mentioning Jesus that can be dated during his supposed lifetime. I'd be glad to know of such a case, but seriously the earliest documents commonly known are Tacitus' Annals book 15, chapter 44 (AD 116), and Joseph Flavius' The Jewish War (AD 75). Both are long after Jesus was said to have lived (dying sometime in the AD 30's).
on “Bertrand Russell: Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)” ↗If you mean the fall of the Roman Republic, that and the succeeding decadence of the Empire was covered in detail by Roman sources. The Annals of Tacitus are just one of many examples. [0] It's how we know what happened. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_(Tacitus)
on “NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy” ↗