Irony and misreading in the Annals of Tacitus / Ellen O'Gorman
2000, First Edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Some reader annotations, chiefly yellow highlighter; pen markings on front free endpage. Item #448018
ISBN: 0521660564
Physical description; vii, 200 pages. 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. Subjects; Tacitus, Cornelius Technique. Irony in literature. Historiography Rome.
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