The Art of Caesar's Bellum Civile
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The Art of Caesar's Bellum Civile

Literature, Ideology, and Community

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The Art of Caesar's Bellum Civile

Literature, Ideology, and Community

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Traditional approaches have reduced Caesar's Bellum Civile to a tool for teaching Latin or to one-dimensional propaganda, thereby underestimating its artistic properties and ideological complexity. Reading strategies typical of scholarship on Latin poetry, like intertextuality, narratology, semantic, rhetorical and structural analysis, cast a new light on the Bellum Civile: Ciceronian language advances Caesar's claim to represent Rome; technical vocabulary reinforces the ethical division between 'us' and the 'barbarian' enemy; switches of focalization guide our perception of the narrative; invective and characterization exclude the Pompeians from the Roman community, according to the mechanisms of rhetoric; and the very structure of the work promotes Caesar's cause. As a piece of literature interacting with its cultural and socio-political world, the Bellum Civile participates in Caesar's multimedia campaign of self-fashioning. A comprehensive approach, such as has been productively applied to Augustus' program, locates the Bellum Civile at the interplay between literature, images and politics.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9781139211314
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. THE ART OF CAESAR’S BELLUM CIVILE
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. CHAPTER 1: The swift and the slow: Caesar’s art of characterization
  11. CHAPTER 2: The great contest: Constantia, innocentia, pudor, and virtus
  12. CHAPTER 3: Redefining loyalty
  13. CHAPTER 4: The limits and risks of Caesar’s leniency
  14. CHAPTER 5: The barbarization of the enemy
  15. CHAPTER 6: Two army-communities and their effect on the Roman people
  16. CHAPTER 7: Shaping the future of Rome
  17. APPENDIX 1: Chronology of the civil war (pre-Julian calendar) and narrative structure of the BC
  18. APPENDIX 2: Composition, publication, and genre of the BC
  19. APPENDIX 3: The manuscript tradition of the BC: opening, end,and book division
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index locorum
  22. General index