Year-beginnings in the Neronian Books of Tacitus' "Annals"

In this article, I discuss Tacitus' narrative technique in the beginning-of-year sections of Annals 13-16, the books of Nero. Tacitus introduces a new year with various formulae in Annals 1-6, but in the later books his desire for variatio seems to cease: in fact, all extant year-beginnings, ex...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Museum Helveticum. - SCHWABE VERLAG BASEL. - 68(2011), 2, Seite 161-181
1. Verfasser:	Bartera, Salvador (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	2011
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:	Museum Helveticum
Schlagworte:	Social sciences Political science Information science Law Behavioral sciences


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