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, narratology, sem...
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2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
