Irony and misreading in the Annals of Tacitus /
This 2000 book examines Tacitus' Annals as an ironic portrayal of Julio-Claudian Rome, through close analysis of passages in which characters engage in interpretation and misreading. By representing the misreading of signifying systems - such as speech, gesture, writing, social structures and n...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
