68 For Cassius Dio, we cite the translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, (.)ģChapters 1–18 of Annals 15 cover developments in Rome’s war against Parthia.67 The law was introduced by the bachelors (!) Marcus Papius Mutilus and Quintus Poppaeus Secundus, t (.).23.1–4: Start of Tacitus’ account of AD 63, with extensive coverage of the birth and death of Nero’s daughter Claudia Augusta.22.2: Review of striking prodigies that occurred in the year AD 62.20.1–22.1: Report of a senate meeting that took place towards the end of AD 62 (continuing on from 15.19).66 Section 1: Annals 15.20–23ĢThematically, the four chapters of Annals 15.20–23 can be divided as follows: ![]() The focus of the assigned portion is squarely on Italy and Rome – the city, the senate, and, not least, the imperial court, with the corresponding personnel, in particular the emperor Nero. Those in charge of setting the text excised with surgical precision those portions of the Annals that cover the military situation in the Near East, specifically Rome’s ongoing conflict with Parthia (15.1–18 24–32). There is a certain rationale behind this stopping and starting. The text breaks off with the unsuccessful attempt by Nero to have his old tutor Seneca poisoned. We re-enter the narrative in 15.33 (the beginning of AD 64) and are then asked to read continuously until the end of 15.45. The set text carries on for a bit, covering the end of AD 62 and the beginning of AD 63 (15.22.2 – 15.23), before vaulting over nine sections (15.24 – 15.32). Tacitus’ account of it began in the previous paragraph (15.19) and continues until 15.22.1. We parachute right into the middle of a meeting of the Roman senate that took place towards the end of the year 62 (15.20.1). 66 This cut-and-paste approach, while understandable, results in a distortion of Tacitus’ overall pic (.)ġThe assigned portion of text begins in medias res.
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