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Tag Archives: the historical diaries

THE DAY ROME BURNED – 64 AD – AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT FROM TACITUS

Posted on December 9, 2018 by The Chronicles of History
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Tacitus was a member of this Roman elite, and whether there is a bias in his writing is difficult to know. Indeed, Tacitus was still a boy at the time of the fire. He would have been a young teenager in 68 A.D., when Nero died.

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Posted in ancient history | Tagged ancient history, ancient roman history, burning of rome, great fire of Rome, history, history of rome, nero and the great fire, roman history, rome, tacitus's account of the great fire, the historical diaries, world history | 14 Replies

Murder Monday | Poem The Murdered Traveller by William Cullen Bryant

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The Assassination of Julius Caesar: Told By Nicolaus of Damascus [44BC]

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