What sources could Tacitus or Appian have used that have since been lost?
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What sources could Tacitus or Appian have used that have since been lost?
Background
Tacitus (56 c. - 120 AD) is famous for writing
- the History of the Roman Republic (The Histories, and The Annals )
- the history and tribes of Germania (Germania),
- The conquests of his father in law Gnaeus Julius Agricola (Agricola)
- the art of rhetoric. (Dialogus de oratoribus)
Appian (c. AD 95 – c. AD 165) wrote 24 books and most of them only sections survive today. His most important works were 13–17 of the Roman History, were on the Roman Civil Wars. But broadly he was a Roman historian who wrote on Rome.
Answer:
Sources which both Tacitus and Appian might have used which are now lost to history?
Cato the Elder (234–149 BC)
- Origines, a 7 book history of Rome and the Italian states.
Livy (59BC - 17AD)
- books of Ab Urbe Condita, on the History of Rome, 107 of 142 of which are lost
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