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Mentioned as a historical source that covers Tiberius but not Caligula: 'we have Tacitus for Tiberius, but we don't have Tacitus for Caligula.' His historical works are referenced as containing fuller accounts of events.

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Referenced as Tacitus's biography of his father-in-law Agricola, described as a eulogy and portrait of the ideal Roman governor

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Mary Beard describes reading this biography of Tacitus's father-in-law as a teenager, where she encountered the famous quote 'they make a desert and call it peace'

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Referenced as 'a book about the Germans' where Tacitus portrays Germanic peoples as heroic and noble, later influential on Nazi ideology

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Referenced as Tacitus's narrative account focused on the civil war convulsing the Roman world during AD 69, the year of the four emperors - Tacitus is described as 'the greatest of all Roman historians'

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Referenced as a documentary source for Boudicca's revolt - 'what you get in Tacitus, a report of Boudicca's revolt that she incinerates London.' This refers to Tacitus's historical writings (likely the Annals)

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Referenced as one of the main historical sources on Nero. Mentioned alongside Suetonius as elite Roman historians who wrote negative accounts of Nero's reign.