Caesar: Bellum Gallicum Book VII

The first commentary on Caesar's Bellum Gallicum to approach it as a literary text. Students will appreciate the drama of the narrative, the sustained intertextual borrowings and allusions, the rhetoric of the speeches, and the artistry of the language. Both author and text emerge in a completely new light.

List of contents

Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; Caesar: Bellum Gallicum Book VII; Commentary; Index personarum locorumque; Index rerum; Bibliography.

About the author

Christopher B. Krebs is a Professor of Classics and (by courtesy) Comparative Literature and German Studies in the Department of Classics at Stanford University. The winner of the Christian Gauss Award and the AJP Best Article Prize, he is the author of A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich (2011) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar (Cambridge, 2017).

Summary

The first commentary on Caesar's Bellum Gallicum to approach it as a literary text. Students will appreciate the drama of the narrative, the sustained intertextual borrowings and allusions, the rhetoric of the speeches, and the artistry of the language. Both author and text emerge in a completely new light.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher B. (Stanford University Krebs
• Assisted by: Christopher B. Krebs (Editor), Christopher B. (Stanford University Krebs (Editor), Krebs Christopher B. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9781009177122
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0917712-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, Translation & interpretation, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, Translation and interpretation, 1st century, c 99 to c 1 BCE