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" The art of Caesar's Bellum Civile : "
Luca Grillo.
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BL
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839263
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Grillo, Luca,1970-
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The art of Caesar's Bellum Civile : : literature, ideology, and community /\ Luca Grillo.
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| Edition Statement
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First paperback edition.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :: Cambridge University Press,, 2015.
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, ©2012
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xii, 221 pages ;; 24 cm
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1107470676
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: 9781107470675
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-209) and indexes.
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| Contents
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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.
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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"--
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Caesar, Julius., De bello civili.
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Historiography.
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De bello civili (Caesar, Julius)
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Rome, History, Civil War, 49-45 B.C., Historiography.
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Rome (Empire)
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937.05
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PA6238.B3G75 2015
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