Discovering Sources by Discerning Methods: Evidence for Tacitus' Annals I-VI

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" Discovering Sources by Discerning Methods: Evidence for Tacitus' Annals I-VI "
MacKay, Michael

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	937128
Doc. No	:	LA6xh8g291
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	MacKay, Michael
Title & Author	:	Discovering Sources by Discerning Methods: Evidence for Tacitus' Annals I-VI [Article]\ MacKay, Michael
Title of Periodical	:	Berkeley Undergraduate Journal of Classics
Volume/ Issue Number	:	3/2
Date	:	2015
Abstract	:	Tacitus' Annals begins with an allusion to Sallust's Bellum Catilinae that makes manifest the Sallustian disposition of the historian. Tacitus declares, ''Urbem Romam a principio reges habuere,'' and Sallust prefaces his monograph by stating, ''Urbem Romam, sicuti ego accepi, condidere atque habuere initio Troiani.'' Yet, what is the role of facts, if Tacitus' delineation of a tyrant comports to Sallust's delineation of a conspirator? The purpose of this paper is to explore Tacitus' sources by interrogating his narrative technique.