Tacitus, Annals, 15.20­-23, 33­-45. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary

Tacitus, Annals, 15.20­-23, 33­-45. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary

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The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome's most infamous villains, and Tacitus' Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text plunges us straight into t...

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Main Authors: Owen, Mathew (Author), Gildenhard, Ingo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] Open Book Publishers [2013]
Series:Open textbook library.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Preface and acknowledgements
  • 2. Introduction
  • 2.1 Tacitus: life and career
  • 2.2 Tacitus' times: the political system of the principate
  • 2.3 Tacitus' oeuvre: opera minora and maiora
  • 2.4 Tacitus' style (as an instrument of thought)
  • 2.5 Tacitus' Nero-narrative: Rocky-Horror-Picture Show and Broadway on the Tiber
  • 2.6 Thrasea Paetus and the so-called ‘Stoic opposition'
  • 3. Latin text with study questions and vocabulary aid
  • 4. Commentary
  • Section 1: Annals 15.20–23
  • (i) 20.1–22.1: The Meeting of the Senate
  • (ii) 22.2: Review of striking prodigies that occurred in AD 62
  • (iii) 23.1–4: Start of Tacitus' account of AD 63: the birth and death of Nero's daughter by Sabina Poppaea, Claudia Augusta
  • Section 2: Annals 15.33–45 (AD 64)
  • (i) 33.1–34.1: Nero's coming-out party as stage performer
  • (ii) 34.2–35.3: A look at the kind of creatures that populate Nero's court – and the killing of an alleged rival
  • (iii) 36: Nero considers, but then reconsiders, going on tour to Egypt
  • (iv) 37: To show his love for Rome, Nero celebrates a huge public orgy that segues into a mock-wedding with his freedman Pythagoras
  • (v) 38–41: The fire of Rome
  • (vi) 42–43: Reconstructing the Capital: Nero's New Palace
  • (vii) 44: Appeasing the Gods, and Christians as Scapegoats
  • (viii) 45: Raising of Funds for Buildings
  • 5. Bibliography
  • 6. Visual aids
  • 6.1 Map of Italy
  • 6.2 Map of Rome
  • 6.3 Family Tree of Nero and Junius Silanus
  • 6.4 Inside the Domus Aurea

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