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  1. Poetics of Conspiracy and Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Tacitus's Dialogus de Oratoribus.Alex Dressler - 2013 - Classical Antiquity 32 (1):1-34.
    This article argues that the end of Tacitus's Dialogus de Oratoribus is inconclusive in ways that draw attention to the difficulty of interpretation not only of the dialogue, as by modern scholars, but also in the dialogue, as by its leading characters. The inconclusiveness is especially marked by a commonly noted, but little discussed, feature of the end: when the rest of the characters laugh at the point of departure, Tacitus himself does not. Arguing that this difference of affective response (...)
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