Plutarch Caesar - Translated With an Introduction and Commentary

Zusatztext [an] awe-filling, exemplar of how decades of excellent scholarship have produced a book that will be in use for many decades, and generations, to come. Informationen zum Autor Christopher Pelling is Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University. Klappentext Plutarch's Life of Caesar deals with the best known Roman of them all! Julius Caesar! and covers virtually all of the major events of the last generation of the Republic. Pelling's volume gives a new translation of the Life! together with an introduction and commentary! while also acknowledging the literary aspects of the narrative. Zusammenfassung Plutarch's Life of Caesar deals with the best known Roman of them all, Julius Caesar, and his vivid narrative covers most of the major events of the last generation of the Republic, as well as painting an insightful picture of this man who sacrificed everything for power. Pelling's volume gives a new translation of the Life together with a full introduction and running commentary on the events it describes. Culminating in the crossing of the Rubicon, Caesar's victory in the Civil War, and finally his assassination on the Ides of March, 44 BC, it goes on to trace the first stages of the new phase of civil war which followed and, in its turn, led to the establishment of the principate. The volume also discusses both the historical and the literary aspects of the Life, relating it both to the broader history of the Republic and to Plutarch's other works, especially the Life of Alexander with which it forms a pair of Parallel Lives. A separate section of the Introduction also discusses Shakespeare's adaptation of Plutarch in Julius Caesar, and points out ways in which the subtle remoulding of Plutarch's material can illuminate the techniques and interests of both authors. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Maps Abbreviations Introduction 1: Plutarch and the Caesars 2: TheLife of Caesar a) Biography and History b) Alexander and Caesar: Pair and Series 3: Sources and Methods a) Gathering the Material b) The Sources c) Remoulding the Material 4: Plutarch and Roman Politics 5: Caesar and Julius Caesar: Plutarch and Shakespeare Translation Commentary Indexes Names General Index ...

Product details

• Authors: C. B. R. Pelling, Christopher Pelling, Pelling Christopher
• Assisted by: Christopher Pelling (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2011
• EAN: 9780199608355
• ISBN: 978-0-19-960835-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Clarendon Ancient History Series; Clarendon Ancient History; Clarendon Ancient History Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; English, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean