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"Anyone who has even a passing acquaintance with Latin knows 'Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres' ('All Gaul is divided into three parts'), the opening line of De Bello Gallico, Julius Caesar's famous commentary on his campaigns against the Gauls in the 50s BC. But...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Riggsby, Andrew M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Caesar, Julius > Military leadership.
Caesar, Julius > Political activity.
Caesar, Julius
Caesar, Gaius Iulius > v100-v44 > De bello Gallico
Caesar, Gaius Iulius.
De bello Gallico.
265-30 B.C
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Command of troops
Political participation
Gaul > History > Gallic Wars, 58-51 B.C. > Political aspects.
Rome > History, Military > 265-30 B.C.
Gaule > Histoire > 58-51 av. J.-C. (Guerre des Gaules) > Aspect politique.
Rome > Histoire militaire > 265-30 av. J.-C.
Europe > Gaul
Rome (Empire)
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Military history
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The Social Life of Texts
  • The Composition of De Bello Gallico
  • Reality and Representation
  • 1. Where Was the Gallic War?
  • Types of Space
  • Geographic Space in De Bello Gallico
  • Tactical Space, Surveying, and the Possession of Gaul
  • 2. The "Other" and the Other "Other"
  • The Ethnographic Tradition
  • Caesar's Ethnography
  • 3. Technology, Virtue, Victory
  • Siegecraft in De Bello Gallico
  • Virtus in De Bello Gallico
  • The Gallic Assimilation of Virtus
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Alien Nation
  • Playing the Cannibal
  • Rhetorics of Empire
  • What Is a Roman?
  • 5. Formal Questions
  • Who and What?
  • To What End?
  • Whose Voice?
  • 6. Empire and the "Just War"
  • The Theory of the Just War
  • Just War Theory in the Real World
  • Cicero's Textual Practice
  • Caesar's Textual Practice
  • 7. New and Improved, Sort Of
  • Facing the Alternatives
  • Comparanda
  • How Does Caesar Compare?
  • Propaganda
  • Appendix A: Wars against "Barbarians"
  • Apppendix B: Generals' Inscriptions.

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