Domitian comes off poorly in his first historical work, which chronicles the stewardship of Britannia by his father-in-law, Agricola.
This main source on the maiestas trials traced the familial line of Mannus and Tuisto to the Istvaeones, Ingvaones, and Irminones in one work. This man inspired the model for The Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme, who wrote a definitive two-volume study of his life. He attributed eloquent speeches by Calgacus to the Caledonii before their loss at Mons Graupius, in one work, and opened another using the contracted verb "habuere" in a dactylic hexameter sentence mentioning kings. Domitian comes off poorly in his first historical work, which chronicles the stewardship of Britannia by his father-in-law, Agricola. This author of the ethnographic Germania mentioned the execution of a man named "Christus" by Pontius Pilate in a work spanning from Augustus to Nero. For 10 points, name this first-century Roman author of the Histories and the Annals.
This main source on the maiestas trials traced the familial line of Mannus and Tuisto to the Istvaeones, Ingvaones, and Irminones in one work.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus [or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus]