Download or read book Tradition and Theme in the Annals of Tacitus written by Judith Ginsburg and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tacitus Annals written by Ronald Mellor and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2011 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tacitus' Annals is the central historical source for first-century C.E. Rome, but it has also become a central text in the western literary, political, and even philosophical traditions - from the Renaissance to the French and American revolutions, and beyond. This volume attempts to enhance the general reader's understanding of why Tacitus' book is so remarkable that it has had such a profound effect across the centuries.
Download or read book The Histories The Annals written by Tacitus and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Histories" is a Roman historical chronicle and it covers the Year of Four Emperors following the downfall of Nero in 68 AD, a year in the history of the Roman Empire in which four emperors ruled in succession: Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian. The mode of their accession showed that because imperial power was based on the support of the legions, an emperor could now be chosen not only at Rome, but anywhere in the empire where sufficient legions were amassed. The style of narration is rapid, reflecting the speed of the events. The narrative rhythm leaves no space to slow down or digress. To write effectively in this style, Tacitus had to summarize substantial information from his sources. "The Annals" is a history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus to that of Nero, the years AD 14–68, covering the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero. As a senator, Tacitus had access to Acta Senatus, the Roman senate's records, thus providing a solid basis for his work. Along with The Histories, The Annals provide a key source for modern understanding of the history of the Roman Empire during the 1st century AD.
Download or read book Religion and Memory in Tacitus Annals written by Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his narrative of Julio-Claudian Rome in the Annals, Tacitus includes numerous references to the gods, fate, fortune, astrology, omens, temples, priests, the emperor cult, and other religious material. Though scholars have long considered Tacitus' discussion of religion of minor importance, this volume demonstrates the significance of such references to an understanding of the work as a whole by analyzing them using cultural memory theory, which views religious ritual as a key component in any society's efforts to create a lived version of the past that helps define cultural identity in the present. Tacitus, who was not only an historian, but also a member of Rome's quindecimviral priesthood, shows a marked interest in even the most detailed rituals of Roman religious life, yet his portrayal of religious material also suggests that the system is under threat with the advent of the principate. Some traditional rituals are forgotten as the shape of the Roman state changes while, simultaneously, a new form of cultic commemoration develops as deceased emperors are deified and the living emperor and his family members are treated in increasingly worshipful ways by his subjects. This study traces the deployment of religious material throughout Tacitus' narrative in order to show how he views the development of this cultic "amnesia" over time, from the reign of the cryptic, autocratic, and oddly mystical Tiberius, through Claudius' failed attempts at reviving tradition, to the final sacrilegious disasters of the impious Nero. As the first book-length treatment of religion in the Annals, it reveals how these references are a key vehicle for his assessment of the principate as a system of government, the activities of individual emperors, and their impact on Roman society and cultural identity.
Download or read book Tacitus Annals 15 20 23 33 45 written by Mathew Owen and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e 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.
Download or read book Annales written by Cornelius Tacitus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described as the "best that Tacitus ever wrote", the fourth book of his Annals covers the years AD 23-28, when Tacitus noted deterioration in the principate of the emperor Tiberius and the increasingly malign influence of his "evil genius" Sejanus.
Download or read book The Annals of Tacitus Volume 1 Annals 1 1 54 written by Cornelius Tacitus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a four-volume edition of Tacitus Annals 1-6. The Annals are Tacitus' brilliant account of Roman imperial history from the death of Augustus to the death of Nero. Books 1-6 describe the reign of Tiberius. Professor Goodyear's introduction to the series deals concisely with the background to the Annals. He outlines the history of Tacitean scholarship to the present day and shows how Tacitus' historical judgements were sometimes distorted by his preoccupations with style and with the moral function of historical writing. The commentary attends equally to literary, historical and textual questions. There are several appendixes on topics of more specialized interest.
Download or read book A synopsis and summary of the Annals of Tacitus books i vi with intr notes and index written by George William Gent and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Annals of Tacitus written by B. Walker and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1952 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tacitus The Histories written by Cornelius Tacitus and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Annals of Tacitus written by Elisabeth Henry and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1950 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annals of Tacitus written by Cornelius Tacitus and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deconstructing Imperial Representation Tacitus Cassius Dio and Suetonius on Nero and Domitian written by Verena Schulz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the literary strategies that Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius apply in depicting the eccentric emperors Nero and Domitian and their imperial representation.
Download or read book Tacitus written by Ronald H. Martin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annals of Tacitus written by Cornelius Tacitus and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1907 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Annals of Tacitus written by Cornelius Tacitus and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1966 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the period AD 20-22 and contains some of Tacitus? best known and important programmatic and reflective passages.
Download or read book Oxford Readings in Tacitus written by Rhiannon Ash and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is designed to reflect the main trends in scholarship on the Roman historian of the early empire, Tacitus, particularly as they have developed over the last century. Covering the whole of Tacitus' works, it begins with a comprehensive introduction which sets the selected scholarship and Roman author in context.
