Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: irony, history, reading
- 2 Imperium sine fine:problems of definition in Annals 1
- 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
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: irony, history, reading
- 2 Imperium sine fine:problems of definition in Annals 1
- 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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- Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus , pp. 184 - 192Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000