|Title: |The Burning of Rome |
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|Author: |Cornelius Tacitus was born around 56 and died around 117. He was a Roman senator, lawyer, orator and |
|Who was he? (short |above all one of antiquity’s greatest roman historians. He was born from a prosperous family of |
|biography) |equestrian position, probably in northern Italy or south Gaul. Tacitus studied rhetoric in order to |
| |become a lawyer and politician, while he was still young. Then, he married Julia Agricola around his |
| |20’s. Tacitus major works include “the Annals” and “the Histories”. |
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|Type of Primary Source: |The passage “Burning of Rome” appears in Tacitus major work |
|from a book? private |“The Annals” which was written in at least 16 books. However, “The Burning of Rome” was written in book |
|letters? |15. |
|Date (or approximation) | “The Burning of Rome” was written down in approximately 117. |
|Place |“The Burning of Rome” was inscribed in the city of Rome, by Tacitus. |
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