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UNINA9910454581303321 |
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Autore |
O'Gorman Ellen |
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Titolo |
Irony and misreading in the Annals of Tacitus / / Ellen O'Gorman [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-107-11785-2 |
0-521-03495-7 |
0-511-17334-2 |
1-280-42079-0 |
0-511-15240-X |
0-511-48233-7 |
0-511-04855-6 |
0-511-32749-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vii, 200 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Rhetoric, Ancient |
Irony |
Rome History Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D Historiography |
Rome Historiography |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-192) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 natural phenomena - Tacitus obliquely comments upon the perversion of Rome's republican structure in the new principate. Furthermore, this study argues that the distinctively obscure |
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