For the Roman writers "Fighting for Rome" became not the expansive imperialism of the all-conquering Republic, but a collapse into horror and un-Roman autocracy brought about by the Caesars' fighting for control of Rome. The essays in this volume range across the literary forms--history and satire, lyric and epic--working closely with particular texts. Conceived over the decade after the Cold War, they have been updated and rewritten to make a book that brings the ancient texts before the reader in a strikingly immediate way.
For the Roman writers "Fighting for Rome" became not the expansive imperialism of the all-conquering Republic, but a collapse into horror and un-Roman autocracy brought about by the Caesars' fighting for control of Rome. The essays in this volume range across the literary forms--history and satire, lyric and epic--working closely with particular texts. Conceived over the decade after the Cold War, they have been updated and rewritten to make a book that brings the ancient texts before the reader in a strikingly immediate way.
Preface Introduction Part I. Histories of the Civil Wars: 1. Three men in a vote: proscription (Appian, Civil wars 4.1-6) 2. XPDNC: writing Caesar (On the civil war) Part II. Horace: 3. On getting rid of kings: Horace, Satires 1.7 4. Polishing off the politics: Horace's Ode to Pollio (Odes 2.1) Part III. Epic: 5. Lucan: the word at war 6. Statius' Thebaid: form (p)remade Part IV. Histories of Rome: 7. Tacitus: the world in pieces 8. Livy and the invention of history Date chart Bibliography Indexes.
Preface Introduction Part I. Histories of the Civil Wars: 1. Three men in a vote: proscription (Appian, Civil wars 4.1-6) 2. XPDNC: writing Caesar (On the civil war) Part II. Horace: 3. On getting rid of kings: Horace, Satires 1.7 4. Polishing off the politics: Horace's Ode to Pollio (Odes 2.1) Part III. Epic: 5. Lucan: the word at war 6. Statius' Thebaid: form (p)remade Part IV. Histories of Rome: 7. Tacitus: the world in pieces 8. Livy and the invention of history Date chart Bibliography Indexes.
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