Articles liés à The Art of Caesar's Bellum Civile: Literature,...

The Art of Caesar's Bellum Civile: Literature, Ideology, And Community - Couverture souple

Grillo, Luca

 
9781107470675: The Art of Caesar's Bellum Civile: Literature, Ideology, And Community
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1107470676 ISBN 13 : 9781107470675
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l'auteur

Luca Grillo is Assistant Professor of Classics at Amherst College, Massachusetts and has written on subjects as diverse as Vergil's women; narratology in Caesar; Augustine and the destruction of the temple of Caelestis in Carthage; and Nobilior's temple of Hercules Musarum. Current and future projects include a monograph on Fortuna and a commentary on Cicero's De Provinciis Consularibus.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1107470676
ISBN 13 
9781107470675
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
234
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Avery
https://www.avery.fr/

chemin des peupliers 27
Dardilly
France

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781107009493: The Art of Caesar's Bellum Civile: Literature, Ideology, and Community

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1107009499 ISBN 13 :  9781107009493
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2012
Couverture rigide