The art of Caesar's Bellum Civile : literature, ideology, and community /

"Traditional approaches have reduced Caesar's Bellum Civile to a tool for teaching Latin or to one-dimensional propaganda, thereby underestimating its artistic properties and ideological complexity. Reading strategies typical of scholarship on Latin poetry, like intertextuality, narratolog...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grillo, Luca, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Caesar, Julius. > De bello civili.
De bello civili (Caesar, Julius)
49-45 B.C
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
HISTORY > Ancient > Rome.
Historiography
Rome > History > Civil War, 49-45 B.C. > Historiography.
Rome > Histoire > 49-45 av. J.-C. (Guerre civile) > Historiographie.
Rome (Empire)
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The swift and the slow: Caesar's art of characterization
  • The great contest: Constantia, innocentia, pudor, and virtus
  • Redefining loyalty
  • The limits and risks of Caesar's leniency
  • The barbarization of the enemy
  • Two army-communities and their effect on the Roman people
  • Shaping the future of Rome
  • Appendix 1: Chronology of the civil war (pre-Julian calendar) and narrative structure of the BC
  • Appendix 2: Composition, publication, and genre of the BC
  • Appendix 3: The manuscript tradition of the BC: openning, end, and book division
  • Bibliography
  • Index locorum
  • General index.

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