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

About this book

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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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