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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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