UID:
almahu_9947415129902882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 221 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511972973 (ebook)
Content:
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, narratology, semantic, rhetorical and structural analysis, cast a new light on the Bellum Civile: Ciceronian language advances Caesar's claim to represent Rome; technical vocabulary reinforces the ethical division between 'us' and the 'barbarian' enemy; switches of focalization guide our perception of the narrative; invective and characterization exclude the Pompeians from the Roman community, according to the mechanisms of rhetoric; and the very structure of the work promotes Caesar's cause. As a piece of literature interacting with its cultural and socio-political world, the Bellum Civile participates in Caesar's multimedia campaign of self-fashioning. A comprehensive approach, such as has been productively applied to Augustus' program, locates the Bellum Civile at the interplay between literature, images and politics.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction -- 1. The swift and the slow: Caesar's art of characterization -- 2. The great contest: constantia, innocentia, pudor, and virtus -- 3. Redefining loyalty -- 4. The limits and risks of Caesar's leniency -- 5. The barbarization of the enemy -- 6. Two army-communities and their effect on the Roman people -- 7. 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. opening, end, and book division.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107009493
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Hochschulschrift
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511972973
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