Tacitus, annals, 15.20-23, 33-45 : : Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and commentary / / Mathew Owen and Ingo Gildenhard.
"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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, England : : Open Book Publishers,, 2013. 2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English Latin |
Series: | Classics textbooks ;
volume 3. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 268 pages) :; illustrations, colour maps, genealogical table; digital, PDF file(s). |
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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