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Irony and misreading in the Annals of Tacitus / Ellen O'Gorman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [(c)2000.]Description: 1 online resource (vii, 200 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511017448
  • 9780511017445
  • 0511048556
  • 9780511048555
  • 0511033311
  • 9780511033315
  • 9780511482335
  • 0511482337
  • 6610420793
  • 9786610420797
  • 1280420790
  • 9781280420795
  • 0511327498
  • 9780511327490
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PA6705.9
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Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: irony, history, reading; 2 Imperium sine Fine: problems of definition in Annals I; 3 Germanicus and the reader in the text; 4 Reading Tiberius at face value; 5 Obliteration and the literate emperor; 6 The empress's plot; 7 Ghostwriting the emperor Nero; 8 Conclusion: the end of history; Bibliography; General Index; Index Locorum.
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Summary: This book is a literary analysis of the language and style of Tacitus' Annals. The political context of first-second century AD Rome is also taken into consideration. Issues relating to the study of narrative, Roman politics and theories of history are addressed in the course of the discussion.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: irony, history, reading; 2 Imperium sine Fine: problems of definition in Annals I; 3 Germanicus and the reader in the text; 4 Reading Tiberius at face value; 5 Obliteration and the literate emperor; 6 The empress's plot; 7 Ghostwriting the emperor Nero; 8 Conclusion: the end of history; Bibliography; General Index; Index Locorum.

This book is a literary analysis of the language and style of Tacitus' Annals. The political context of first-second century AD Rome is also taken into consideration. Issues relating to the study of narrative, Roman politics and theories of history are addressed in the course of the discussion.

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