The Art of Caesar's Bellum Civile
Literature, Ideology, and Community
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
Av Luca Grillo, Massachusetts) Grillo, Luca (Amherst College
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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.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2015-03-26
- Mått151 x 229 x 12 mm
- Vikt340 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor234
- FörlagCambridge University Press
- ISBN9781107470675