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    work. Although Tacitus refers to part of his work as "my annals", the title of the work Annals used today was not assigned by Tacitus himself, but derives...
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    Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus (/ˈtæsɪtəs/ TAS-it-əs, Latin: [ˈtakɪtʊs]; c. AD 56 – c. 120), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely...
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    senator Tacitus referred to Jesus, his execution by Pontius Pilate, and the existence of early Christians in Rome in his final work, Annals (written...
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    to the Annals. Tacitus' friend Pliny the Younger referred to "your histories" when writing to Tacitus about the earlier work. By the time Tacitus had completed...
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    Tacitus, Annals I.1; Josephus, Antiquities XX.8.3; Tacitus, Life of Agricola 10; Tacitus, Annals XIII.20. Tacitus, Annals XIII.20; Tacitus, Annals XIV...
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    throne was offered to the aged Princeps Senatus, Tacitus. According to the Historia Augusta, Tacitus, after ascertaining the sincerity of the Senate's...
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    Nero's Torches (category Works based on the Annals (Tacitus))
    the Domus Aurea. The motif is based on the descriptions by Suetonius and Tacitus. Of note is that the signs attached to the feet of the condemned list their...
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    Agrippina and the child among the soldiery. Tacitus attributes her actions as having quelled the mutiny (Tacitus, Annals 1.40–4). Once the mutiny was put to an...
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  • paganism, Baduhenna is a goddess. Baduhenna is solely attested in Tacitus's Annals where Tacitus records that a sacred grove in ancient Frisia was dedicated...
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  • I, Claudius (category Works based on the Annals (Tacitus))
    accounts of the same time period by the Roman historians Suetonius and Tacitus. The "autobiography" continues in a sequel, Claudius the God (1935), which...
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    extant Roman references to Christianity, Pliny the Younger and Tacitus in his Annals about 116, refer to Christianity as superstitio, excessive and non-traditional...
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    Tacitus. The Annals.12.15 Tacitus. The Annals.12.16 Tacitus. The Annals.12.17 Tacitus. The Annals.12.18 Tacitus. The Annals.12.19 Tacitus. The Annals...
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    Zenobia e Radamisto (category Works based on the Annals (Tacitus))
    Zenobia e Radamisto is an opera in 3 acts and nine scenes by composer Giovanni Legrenzi. The opera uses an Italian language libretto by Ippolito Bentivoglio...
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    Claudius 27 Tacitus, Annals IV.7 Tacitus, Annals IV.8 Tacitus, Annals III.56 Tacitus, Annals II.72 Tacitus, Annals IV.52, IV.53, IV.54 Tacitus, Annals IV.12...
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    due to similarities between Thor's hammer and Hercules' club. In his Annals, Tacitus again refers to the veneration of "Hercules" by the Germanic peoples;...
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  • source by other prominent Roman historians, including Plutarch, Tacitus, and Suetonius. Tacitus may have used Bella Germaniae as the primary source for his...
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    The Death of Messalina (category Works based on the Annals (Tacitus))
    of Claudius's wife Messalina in the Gardens of Lucullus (as reported by Tacitus) was the subject set for candidates for the Prix de Rome in 1870. The historian...
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    The Death of Germanicus (category Works based on the Annals (Tacitus))
    subject. This episode in the history of ancient Rome is taken from the Annals of Tacitus. It describes the military successes of the Roman general Germanicus...
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    Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus (category Works based on the Annals (Tacitus))
    ideal Roman long after his death. Primary sources (incl. Suetonius and Tacitus) often compared him to great men like Alexander the Great and hailed his...
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    Agrippina (opera) (category Works based on the Annals (Tacitus))
    historical, and the broad outline of the libretto draws heavily upon Tacitus's Annals and Suetonius' Life of Claudius. It has been suggested that the comical...
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  • ISBN 0-19-814731-7, ISBN 978-0-19-814731-2 Tacitus, Annals Tacitus, Histories Cassius Dio, Roman History Tacitus, Annals Book 3, chapters 72 and 73, English translation...
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    L'incoronazione di Poppea (category Works based on the Annals (Tacitus))
    The main sources for the story told in Busenello's libretto are the Annals of Tacitus; book 6 of Suetonius's history The Twelve Caesars; books 61–62 of...
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    "Life of Nero". Lives of Twelve Caesars. Tacitus, Annal XV. 38–44 Tacitus, Annals XV. 44 Tacitus, Annals XV. 38–39 Cassius Dio, Roman History Books...
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    Quo Vadis (novel) (category Works based on the Annals (Tacitus))
    Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin. Quo vadis, Domine? Tacitus. "XIII.32". Annals. Suetonius. "Divus Vespasian". The Twelve Caesars. 4. "Neron (Quo...
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  • Flaccus's division of genres is borne out in the common division of Tacitus's works into Annals and Histories, although he did not use those titles to refer...
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    Christensen 2002, pp. 25–31. Wolfram 1990, pp. 40–41. Tacitus 1876a, XLIV Christensen 2002, pp. 35–36. Tacitus 1876b, 62 Christensen 2002, pp. 36–38. Jordanes...
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    tribes were also alike, according to Tacitus, in being supported by Roman silver.[citation needed] In The Annals, Tacitus writes that Maroboduus was deposed...
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    Chronicles, by Thomas MD Brooke. Fflur 219 Thusnelda Tacitus, The Annals 1.55 Tacitus, The Annals 1.57 "Thusnelda, Wife of Hermann". www.germanamericanpioneers...
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    Germanicus Calms Sedition in his Camp (category Works based on the Annals (Tacitus))
    to the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts. The subject from Tacitus's Annals (I, 40–44) and Suetonius's Lives of the Caesars (5, 1) was that set...
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    Natural History 5.1 Tacitus, Agricola 14 Tacitus, Annals 14.29 Tacitus, Annals 14.32 Tacitus, Agricola 5 Tacitus, Agricola 15-16; Annals 14.29-33; Cassius...
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