ABSTRACT
Although Tacitus was a profoundly influential historian who has been read throughout the ages, he is not generally considered an important part of Kierkegaard’s universe of thought. Indeed, he is usually not even counted among the group of Kierkegaard’s most important ancient sources, where names like Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Seneca figure prominently. Further, most Kierkegaard scholars would regard it as outright preposterous to turn to Tacitus as a source for Kierkegaard’s conception of Christianity.
