Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus

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Irony and Misreading in the Annals of TacitusThis 2006 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

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