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Who in the world are the Heruli?1

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 284-305, August 2024.
The history of the Heruli represents a historical conundrum. Because of the poor state of the sources, caution is required when analysing this subject. However, the peculiarity of the case encourages us to rethink the way we conceive of and describe migrations in Late Antiquity.
Salvatore Liccardo
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Tacitus

open access: yes, 2012
Source: Felix Dahn: Gesammelte Werke. Erzählende und poetische Schriften, Zweite Reihe, Band 5: Gedichte und Balladen (Auswahl), Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1912.
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Metaphorical Picture of Tiberius in Tacitus’s Annals

open access: yesClassica Cracoviensia, 2013
Metaphorical Picture of Tiberius in Tacitus’s Annals The paper discusses the way of presenting Tiberius in Tacitus’ Annals; it concentrates on the analysis of diction and metaphors (Tiberius as a snake, the metaphors of clothing, of siege and of fire)
Justyna Migdał
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Tacitus: Annals XVI

open access: yes, 2017
Book XVI of Tacitus\u27 Annals is the last of the surviving books of the great Roman historian\u27s monumental account of the reigns of the emperors from Tiberius to Nero.
Fratantuono, Lee M., Tacitus
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Formen des Vergessens bei Tacitus

open access: yes, 2020
Tacitus understands himself as a historiographer who writes against forgetting. This essay examines how Tacitus conceives of forgetting and how he depicts processes of forgetting.
Schulz, Verena
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Strabón a Tacitus o počátcích dějin České kotliny

open access: yesArcheologické Rozhledy, 2016
V článku je probráno několik postřehů k interpretaci dvou zpráv antických autorů o poměrech v České kotlině v období přelomu letopočtů. Strabón (Geogr.
Ivan Prchlík
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An epigraphic contribution to the study o f the magic action: the tabellae defixionum

open access: yesRevista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia
This article studies some Latin inscriptions called tabellae defixionum in the Ancient Roman world. Historians like Livy and Tacitus mention curse rituals and the epigraphic sources demonstrate their diffusion among different social levels.
Maria Luiza Corassin
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Nota per le fonti della persecuzione anticristiana di Nerone e le sue conseguenze, alla luce di due recenti apporti critici

open access: yesEspacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 2001
L'articolo analizza le testimonianze di Tácito, di Clemente Romano e di Giovenale sulla persecuzione anticristiana di nerone e presenta la scoperta di una delle piu antiche lettere cristiane extracanoniche (POxy XLII 3057).
Ilaria Ramelli
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Tacitus on the Aurora [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1881
THERE is a passage in the “Germania” of Tacitus (chapter xlv.) which I do not think can have ever been examined by the historians of natural science, or it would have created a considerable stir amongst them. Side by side with a plain account—probably the earliest written one—of an arctic twilight, there lurks in it a description of the aurora borealis,
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