The art of Caesar's Bellum Civile : literature, ideology, and community /

The art of Caesar's Bellum Civile : literature, ideology, and community /

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Author / Creator:	Grillo, Luca, 1970- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (236 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Caesar, Julius. -- De bello civili. De bello civili (Caesar, Julius) Historiography. Rome -- History -- Civil War, 49-45 B.C. -- Historiography. Rome (Empire) History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11829740

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ISBN:	9781139220927 1139220926 9780511972973 0511972970 9781139224352 1139224352 9781107009493 1107009499 9781139217842
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	"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."--Resource website
Other form:	Print version: 9781107009493

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (236 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:	9781139220927 1139220926 9780511972973 0511972970 9781139224352 1139224352 9781107009493 1107009499 9781139217842