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 -- 3. Latin text with study questions and vocabulary aid -- 4. Commentary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Notes
In English with portions in Latin
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 08, 2014)
