This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of <i>Annals</i> XIV, 1¿13, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in English for A Level.Tacitus is one of the great Roman historians. His <i>Annals</i>, written in the early-2nd century CE, described the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Gaius, Claudius and Nero, covering the years 14¿68 CE. In this selection he provides a memorable vignette of Nero¿s decadence and cruelty in the failed and then successful murder of his own mother, Agrippina. The drama of Nero¿s reign must be read in the context of Tacitus¿ perspective as an author writing within living memory of the events he describes, events which shaped the further development of imperial rule.Supporting resources are available on the Companion Website: https://www.bloomsbury.pub/OCR-editions-2024-2026
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Tacitus (c. 55-c. 120 CE), renowned for concision and psychology, is paramount as a historian of the early Roman empire. What survives of Histories covers the dramatic years 69-70. What survives of Annals tells an often terrible tale of 14-28, 31-37,...
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Cornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. <i>The Annals </i>commence in a.d. 14, at the death of Augustus,...
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