Who were Tacitus, Suetonius, Pliny and Flavius?

Answer 1

I believe they were all Roman historians.

Answer 2

All of these men were Historians from the Classical world.

Their accounts, concerning, say the Imperial Court at Rome should be taken with a grain of salt as some were removed fifty to one hundred years from the source with no extant court records surviving to verify their histories, like Tacitus.

There was Pliny and Pliny the Elder. More a researcher of Phenomena and the sciences. An early ' Encyclopedist. '

When it comes to Rome - as Empire - there is much which would fall through the cracks purely as policy and too dangerous to pass on. Hence, the conjectures.

Latter day scholarship has proven shrewd, insightful, and perceptive filling in the missing pieces.

By Flavius I assume you mean Josephus. There is a widely held view of a corrupted insertion about Jesus in his histories which he didn't put there.

Doesn't jibe with the character of the body text.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/main_page...

Here, if you download, you'll find the works by these people, free of charge. Oh, Plutarch is also worth a look. Napoleon really admired and scoured his work.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Sounds like names for horses.....