Winner, AAP/PSP Award for Excellence, Classics and Ancient History,
2006 Anyone who has even a passing acquaintance with Latin knows
"Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres" ("All Gaul is divided into
three parts"), the opening line of De Bello Gallico, Julius
Caesar's famous commentary on his campaigns against the Gauls in
the 50s BC. But what did Caesar intend to accomplish by writing and
publishing his commentaries, how did he go about it, and what
potentially unforeseen consequences did his writing have? These are
the questions that Andrew Riggsby pursues in this fresh
interpretation of one of the masterworks of Latin prose. Riggsby
uses contemporary literary methods to examine the historical impact
that the commentaries had on the Roman reading public. In the first
part of his study, Riggsby considers how Caesar defined Roman
identity and its relationship to non-Roman others. He shows how
Caesar opens up a possible vision of the political future in which
the distinction between Roman and non-Roman becomes less important
because of their joint submission to a Caesar-like leader. In the
second part, Riggsby analyzes Caesar's political self-fashioning
and the potential effects of his writing and publishing the Gallic
War. He reveals how Caesar presents himself as a subtly new kind of
Roman general who deserves credit not only for his own virtues, but
for those of his soldiers as well. Riggsby uses case studies of key
topics (spatial representation, ethnography, virtus and technology,
genre, and the just war), augmented by more synthetic discussions
that bring in evidence from other Roman and Greek texts, to offer a
broad picture of the themes of national identity and Caesar's
self-presentation.
General
| Imprint: |
University Of Texas Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
July 2006 |
| First published: |
August 2010 |
| Authors: |
Andrew M. Riggsby
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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| Pages: |
286 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-292-72617-8 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
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History >
General
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| LSN: |
0-292-72617-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780292726178 |
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