Velleius Paterculus, Tiberius and Tacitus
Abstract
Students of Tacitus are accustomed to hear Velleius Paterculus condemned as a mere sycophant, altogether negli- gible as a historian and unworthy of our attention. Indeed, as a contemporary of Tiberius, he flatly contradicts Taci- tus in the case of his elaborate character portrait of the emperor. One may not, then, extol the later writer with- out in some way discounting the assertions of the earlier.
Subject Area
European history|Classical Studies|Ancient history
Recommended Citation
Leclerc, Joseph-Robert, "Velleius Paterculus, Tiberius and Tacitus" (1936). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28927821.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28927821
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