Format:
Online-Ressource (278 p)
ISBN:
9781783740017
Series Statement:
Classics Textbooks v.3
Content:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- 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 -- (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 -- Back Cover.
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Description based upon print version of record
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""Front Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""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""
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""(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""; ""(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""
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""(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""; ""Back Cover""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781783740024
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781783740017
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tacitus, Annals, 15.20-23, 33-45 : Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary
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