Irony and misreading in the Annals of Tacitus / Ellen O'Gorman.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [(c)2000.]Description: 1 online resource (vii, 200 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9780511017445
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- PA6705.9
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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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