Tacitus, annals, 15.20-23, 33-45 Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and commentary
"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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, England
Open Book Publishers
2013©2013, 2013
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| Series: | Classics Textbooks
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "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 ... This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary."--Publisher |
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| Physical Description: | 280 pages illustrations (some color), maps, photograph |
| ISBN: | 1783740019 9781783740000 9781783740017 |