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Caesar. edited by Christoph...
This is the first commentary on Caesar's Bellum Gallicum to approach it as a literary text. It attempts a contextualized reading of the work through the eyes of a contemporary Roman reader, who was trained in rhetoric, versed in Greek and Roman literature, and familiar with the same political and cultural conventions and discourses as its author. In appreciating Caesar as a writer and situating the seventh book of the Bellum Gallicum within its 'horizon of expectations' and especially its historiographical tradition, it reveals much that rewards careful attention, including: a dramatized narrative, sustained intertextual borrowings and allusions (especially from and to Thucydides and Polybius), (in)direct speeches telling of Rome's second-greatest speaker, and word- and sound-play telling of the leading linguist, not to mention artful technical descriptions that lack parallels in the Roman republic. Ultimately, both author and text emerge as quite different from their grossly generalized reputations
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monografia Rebiun36999501 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun36999501 m o d | cr|||||||||||| 250120s2023 enk ob 001 0 eng d 9781009177139 1009177133 9781009188548 1009188542 MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ eng lat 820.9 23 De bello Gallico. Liber 7 Caesar. Bellum Gallicum. Book VII. edited by Christopher B. Krebs First edition Cambridge, England Cambridge University Press [2023] Cambridge, England Cambridge, England Cambridge University Press 2023 1 online resource (xvi, 386 pages) digital, PDF file(s) 1 online resource (xvi, 386 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cambridge Greek and Latin classics Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Jan 2024) Includes bibliographical references and index Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface and acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations and references by author's name alone -- Introduction -- 1 Julius Caesar, Man of Letters -- 2 The War in Gaul -- (2a) Preliminaries -- (2b) Gaul and the Gauls -- (2c) The campaigns -- (2d) Other "voices"? -- 3 The Gallic War -- (3a) Matters of composition -- (3b) A style of choice and a functionalist aesthetic -- (3c) The narrative of VII: a semi-historical monograph of tragic connotations -- (3d) Caesar imperator and his "commentarii rerum militarium" -- (3e) Building empire: technical ekphrasis -- (3f) Caesar's men -- (3g) Vercingetorix and the not-so-impulsive Gallic masses -- (3h) Caesar and no end? A few observations on influence -- 4 About This Commentary and Its Text -- The text -- Conspectus -- C. IVLI CAESARISCOMMENTARIVS RERVM GESTARVMBELLI GALLICI SEPTIMVS -- Commentary -- 1-5 The resistance "begins" -- 6-13 Exemplary leadership in a "war of movements": from Ravenna to Avaricum -- 14-28 Sieging in the rain: Avaricum -- 14-19 A "new" strategy and an "exception" -- 20-28 The sack of the "city" -- 29-35 Avaricum's aftermath -- 36-56 The defeat -- 36-43 (Not) at Gergovia -- 44-52 "A silence suffuses the story" -- 53-56 The escape artist -- 57-62 Labienus' aristeia in the battle by the Seine -- 63-67 Pride and setback -- 68-90 The grand finale (that was not) -- 68-78 Besieging "Numantia" -- 79-88 The hammer and anvil -- 89-90 The coda -- Works cited -- Index locorum, gentium personarumque -- Index This is the first commentary on Caesar's Bellum Gallicum to approach it as a literary text. It attempts a contextualized reading of the work through the eyes of a contemporary Roman reader, who was trained in rhetoric, versed in Greek and Roman literature, and familiar with the same political and cultural conventions and discourses as its author. In appreciating Caesar as a writer and situating the seventh book of the Bellum Gallicum within its 'horizon of expectations' and especially its historiographical tradition, it reveals much that rewards careful attention, including: a dramatized narrative, sustained intertextual borrowings and allusions (especially from and to Thucydides and Polybius), (in)direct speeches telling of Rome's second-greatest speaker, and word- and sound-play telling of the leading linguist, not to mention artful technical descriptions that lack parallels in the Roman republic. Ultimately, both author and text emerge as quite different from their grossly generalized reputations English literature- History and criticism Krebs, Christopher B. editor 9781009177122 1009177125 Cambridge Greek and Latin classics