Art of Caesar''s Bellum Civile - Literature, Ideology, and Community

Informationen zum Autor Luca Grillo is Assistant Professor of Classics at Amherst College, Massachusetts and has written on subjects as diverse as Vergil's women; narratology in Caesar; Augustine and the destruction of the temple of Caelestis in Carthage; and Nobilior's temple of Hercules Musarum. Current and future projects include a monograph on Fortuna and a commentary on Cicero's De Provinciis Consularibus. Klappentext Comprehensive exploration of the artistic properties and intellectual complexity of Caesar's Bellum Civile, showing the interaction of literature and politics. Zusammenfassung Participating in a new wave of Caesar studies! this book examines the Bellum Civile as a piece of literature written by a recognized intellectual and not simply a successful politician and general. Focusing on the peculiarities of Caesar's art! this reading explores the work's style! rhetoric! ideology and architecture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Between ancient and modern approaches: admirers and detractors of Caesar; 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: the architecture of the Bellum Civile; Appendix 1. Chronology of the Civil War (pre-Julian calendar) and narrative structure of the Bellum Civile; Appendix 2. Composition, publication and genre of the Bellum Civile; Appendix 3. The manuscript tradition of the Bellum Civile. Opening, end and book division.

Product details

• Authors: Luca Grillo, Luca (Amherst College Grillo, Grillo Luca
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.01.2012
• EAN: 9781107009493
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00949-3
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, Latin, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory