Studies on the Text of Caesar's Bellum Civile
Title | Studies on the Text of Caesar's Bellum Civile PDF eBook |
Author | Cynthia Damon |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780191791260 |
'Studies on the Text of Caesar's Bellum Civile' is a companion volume to Damon's revised 'Oxford Classical Texts' edition of Caesar's 'Bellum civile', his account of his civil war with Pompey. Comprising three parts, it investigates the detailed philological arguments that underpin the revised edition of the text.
Studies on the Text of Caesar's Bellum Civile
Title | Studies on the Text of Caesar's Bellum Civile PDF eBook |
Author | Cynthia Damon |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198724063 |
Studies on the Text of Caesar's Bellum civile is a companion volume to Damon's revised Oxford Classical Texts edition of Caesar's Bellum civile, his account of his civil war with Pompey. Comprising three parts, this volume investigates the detailed philological arguments that underpin the revised edition of the text. The first part supplements the preface of the Oxford Classical Texts edition, providing an expanded background on the history of the text and a more detailed argument for the shape of the stemma. The second part is a discussion of nature and the causes of the difficulties present in the text of the Bellum civile and their consequences for the revised edition. The third part presents a series of around 75 notes on different areas of the text, exploring in depth the contentions behind the various remedies suggested in the critical apparatus of the Oxford Classical Texts edition.
C. Iuli Caesaris Commentariorum
Title | C. Iuli Caesaris Commentariorum PDF eBook |
Author | Julius Caesar |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 338 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199659745 |
A revised critical edition for the Oxford Classical Texts series of the Latin text of Caesar's Bellum civile, his account of his civil war against Pompey Features an expanded and up-to-date critical apparatus Includes an appendix critica, an appendix orthographica, and a conspectus editionum Suitable for classroom use as well as for research purposes
Julius Caesar's Bellum Civile and the Composition of a New Reality
Title | Julius Caesar's Bellum Civile and the Composition of a New Reality PDF eBook |
Author | Ayelet Peer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 225 |
Release | 2016-03-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317110013 |
In his Commentarii de Bello Civili Julius Caesar sought to re-invent his image and appear before his present and future readers in a way which he could control and at times manipulate. Offering a new interpretation of the Bellum Civile this book reveals the intricate literary world that Caesar creates using sophisticated techniques such as a studied choice of vocabulary, rearrangement of events, use of indirect speech, and more. Each of the three books of the work is examined independently to set out the gradual transformation of Caesar's literary persona, in step with his ascent in the 'real' world. By analysing the work from Caesar's viewpoint the author argues that by adroit presentation and manipulation of historical circumstances Caesar creates in his narrative a different reality, one in which his conduct is justified. The question of the res publica is also a key point of the volume, as it is in the Bellum Civile, and the author argues that Caesar purposely does not present himself as a Republican, contrary to commonly held views. Employing detailed philological analyses of Caesar's three books on the Civil War, this work significantly advances our understanding of Caesar as author and politician.
The Art of Caesar's Bellum Civile
Title | The Art of Caesar's Bellum Civile PDF eBook |
Author | Luca Grillo |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 235 |
Release | 2012-01-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139503219 |
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.
Civil War
Title | Civil War PDF eBook |
Author | Caesar |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 454 |
Release | 2016-05-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674997034 |
Civil War provides a vigorous, direct, clear, third-personal, impassioned account of Caesar’s campaigns during the civil war of 49–48 BC, drawn from his three books of commentarii.
Julius Caesar's Bellum Civile and the Composition of a New Reality
Title | Julius Caesar's Bellum Civile and the Composition of a New Reality PDF eBook |
Author | Ayelet Peer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 210 |
Release | 2016-03-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317110021 |
In his Commentarii de Bello Civili Julius Caesar sought to re-invent his image and appear before his present and future readers in a way which he could control and at times manipulate. Offering a new interpretation of the Bellum Civile this book reveals the intricate literary world that Caesar creates using sophisticated techniques such as a studied choice of vocabulary, rearrangement of events, use of indirect speech, and more. Each of the three books of the work is examined independently to set out the gradual transformation of Caesar's literary persona, in step with his ascent in the 'real' world. By analysing the work from Caesar's viewpoint the author argues that by adroit presentation and manipulation of historical circumstances Caesar creates in his narrative a different reality, one in which his conduct is justified. The question of the res publica is also a key point of the volume, as it is in the Bellum Civile, and the author argues that Caesar purposely does not present himself as a Republican, contrary to commonly held views. Employing detailed philological analyses of Caesar's three books on the Civil War, this work significantly advances our understanding of Caesar as author and politician.