Tacitus de Christianis: Where Had His Information about Christianity Come from?

Abstract

In the paper all the accounts are gathered, concerning the Early Christianity, which eventually could have been contained in the writings of Tacitus, including the lost passages. The account preserved directly by him contains details that could be historically precise.

Based on this supposition, the other accounts are considered both whether they could have come from Tacitus and whether they really refer to the Early Christianity.

Keywords

• Tacitus
• Early Christianity
• early Christian denominations
• persecution of Christians
• the overthrow of the Temple
• aristocracy of the early principate
• sources of Tacitus
• Cassius Dio