The Invitation to Baiae
🎯 Learning Intention
Understand how Tacitus presents the elaborate deception and psychological manipulation as Nero lures Agrippina to her death.
Success Criteria
- I can analyse how Tacitus uses the Quinquatrus festival as narrative cover for murder
- I can explain the significance of Nero's physical gestures (hand, embrace) as performance masking murderous intent
- I can evaluate Tacitus' characterisation through the "easy female credulity" comment
- I can identify the ambiguity in Nero's final embrace and its dramatic effect