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The Art of Caesar's Bellum Civile - Literature, Ideology, and Community (Hardcover, New)
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The Art of Caesar's Bellum Civile - Literature, Ideology, and Community (Hardcover, New)
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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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