Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 396 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9781139151160
Series Statement:
Cambridge Companions to Literature
Content:
Well-known as a brilliant general and politician, Julius Caesar also played a fundamental role in the formation of the Latin literary language and remains a central figure in the history of Latin literature. With twenty-three chapters written by renowned scholars, this Companion provides an accessible introduction to Caesar as an intellectual along with a scholarly assessment of his multiple literary accomplishments and new insights into their literary value. The Commentarii and Caesar's lost works are presented in their historical and literary context. The various chapters explore their main features, the connection between literature, state religion and politics, Caesar's debt to previous Greek and Latin authors, and his legacy within and outside of Latin literature. The innovative volume will be of great value to all students and scholars of Latin literature and to those seeking a more rounded portrait of the achievements of Julius Caesar.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Description based on print version record
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Introduction. Caesarian questions: then, now, hence
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Literature and politics. Caesar, literature and politics at the end of the Republic
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The Commentarii in their propagandistic context
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Caesar constructing Caesar
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Priesthoods, gods and stars
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The politics of geography
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Genre, rhetoric, language and style. Genres and generic contaminations in the Commentarii
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Caesar's style
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Speeches in the Commentarii
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Wit and irony
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Literary approaches to Caesar
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Fragmentary works. Caesar the linguist: the debate about the Latin language
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Caesar's orations
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Caesar's poetry in its context
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Anticato
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The letters of Caesar
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Sources and Nachleben. Caesar and Greek historians L. Pitcher ; Caesar and Roman historiography prior to the Commentarii
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The Corpus Caesarianum
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Caesar in Livy and Tacitus
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Caesar, Virgil and Lucan
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Narrating the Gallic and Civil Wars with and beyond Caesar
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Writing war with Caesar: the Commentarii's afterlife in military memoirs / H. Schadee.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107023413
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107670495
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Cambridge companion to the writings of Julius Caesar Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781107670495
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107023413
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Caesar, Gaius Iulius 20 v. Chr.-4 v20-v5
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Literatur
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Caesar, Gaius Iulius 20 v. Chr.-4 v20-v5
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Literatur
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1017/9781139151160
Author information:
Krebs, Christopher B.
