Comprehensive exploration of the artistic properties and intellectual complexity of Caesar's Bellum Civile, showing the interaction of literature and politics.
Comprehensive exploration of the artistic properties and intellectual complexity of Caesar's Bellum Civile, showing the interaction of literature and politics.
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.
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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.
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.
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