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The art of Caesar's Bellum Civile :

1107470676

9781107470675

The art of Caesar's Bellum Civile :

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literature, ideology, and community /

Luca Grillo.

First paperback edition.

Cambridge, United Kingdom :

Cambridge University Press,

2015.

©2012

xii, 221 pages ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-209) and indexes.

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.

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"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 for self-advertisement. A comprehensive approach, such as has been productively applied to Augustus' program, locates the Bellum Civile at the interplay between literature, images and politics"--

Caesar, Julius., De bello civili.

De bello civili (Caesar, Julius)

Historiography.

Rome, History, Civil War, 49-45 B.C., Historiography.

Rome (Empire)

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Grillo, Luca,1970-

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