Organization and Mimetic Excess: Magic, Critique, and Style

Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble, Ancient footprints are everywhere. You can almost think that youre seein double On a cold, dark night on the Spanish Stairs. Bob Dylan Agrippina stood over the still warm but dead body of her husband Germanicus. She ordered that his body be sent out to the market place for public view. Suetonius in his historical account describes the markings on Germanicuss corpse; because of the dark stains which covered his body, and the foam on his lips, poison was suspected; significantly also, they found the heart intact among his bones after cremation- a heart steeped in poison is supposedly proof against fire. (Suetonius, 1979: 150). His body inscribed with these signs pointed to the methods of his unfortunate demise. Germanicus was believed to be the subject of witchery and poison. In another account, Robert Graves (1953) writes his fictional version of what happened in I Claudius in a