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Tacitus, Annals, 15.20-23, 33-45 (Hardcover, New)
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Tacitus, Annals, 15.20-23, 33-45 (Hardcover, New)
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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 the moral cesspool that Rome had
apparently become in the later years of Nero's reign, chronicling
the emperor's fledgling stage career including his plans for a
grand tour of Greece; his participation in a city-wide orgy
climaxing in his publicly consummated 'marriage' to his toy boy
Pythagoras; the great fire of AD 64, during which large parts of
central Rome went up in flames; and the rising of Nero's
'grotesque' new palace, the so-called 'Golden House', from the
ashes of the city. This building project stoked the rumours that
the emperor himself was behind the conflagration, and Tacitus goes
on to present us with Nero's gruesome efforts to quell these
mutterings by scapegoating and executing members of an unpopular
new cult then starting to spread through the Roman empire:
Christianity. All this contrasts starkly with four chapters
focusing on one of Nero's most principled opponents, the Stoic
senator Thrasea Paetus, an audacious figure of moral fibre, who
courageously refuses to bend to the forces of imperial corruption
and hypocrisy. This course book offers a portion of the original
Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed
to stretch and stimulate readers, Owen's and Gildenhard's incisive
commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at
both A2 and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed
linguistic analysis and historical background to encourage critical
engagement with Tacitus' prose and discussion of the most recent
scholarly thought.
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