Talk:List of people mentioned in the works of Tacitus

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This would be a far more useful list were the passages where these names appeared included. At least the more important ones. -- llywrch (talk) 22:54, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Well, all of them, surely. The more obscure they are, the more useless a bare list with no reference would be ... if indeed it is the job of Wikipedia to list all including the most obscure.

Thinking about it, maybe you meant "the more important passages". That would be true :)

The definition needs more thought. "People of the culture known to Tacitus" has all sorts of problems, but the basic one for us is that it isn't a paraphrase of the title. As a writer on history (and oratory), he mentioned people not because they belonged to any culture, or because they or their cultures were known to him, but because he thought them relevant to the subjects he was writing about. Andrew Dalby 08:51, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I too doubt the encyclopedic importance of the list in its current form. It either needs expansion with further details, or be used as a redirect to Tacitus' article. Bezrat (talk) 23:56, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]