The Cambridge companion to the writings of Julius Caesar / edited by Luca Grillo, Christopher B. Krebs.

Other author Grillo, Luca, 1970-
Other author Krebs, Christopher B.
Other author Cambridge University Press.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Descriptionxiv, 396 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Cambridge Companions
Subjects
Caesar, Julius--Criticism and interpretation.
Caesar, Julius--Sources.
Caesar, Julius--Influence.
Historiography--Rome.

Contents Introduction. Caesarian questions: then, now, hence / L. Grillo and C. Krebs -- Literature and politics. Caesar, literature and politics at the end of the Republic / K. Raaflaub -- The Commentarii in their propagandistic context / C. Krebs -- Caesar constructing Caesar / W. Batstone -- Priesthoods, gods and stars / J. Rüpke -- The politics of geography / A. Riggsby -- Nostri and "the other(s)" / A. Johnston -- Genre, rhetoric, language and style. Genres and generic contaminations in the Commentarii / D. Nousek -- Caesar's style / C. Krebs -- Speeches in the Commentarii / L. Grillo -- Wit and irony / A. Corbeill -- Literary approaches to Caesar / L. Grillo -- Fragmentary works. Caesar the linguist: the debate about the Latin language / G. Pezzini -- Caesar's orations / H. van der Blom -- Caesar's poetry in its context / Sergio Casali -- Anticato / A. Corbeill -- The letters of Caesar / R. Morello -- Sources and Nachleben. Caesar and Greek historians / L. Pitcher -- Caesar and Roman historiography prior to the Commentarii / M. Chassignet -- The Corpus Caesarianum / J. F. Gaertner -- Caesar in Livy and Tacitus / C. S. Kraus -- Caesar, Virgil and Lucan / T. Joseph -- Narrating the Gallic and Civil Wars with and beyond Caesar / J. Thorne -- Writing war with Caesar: the Commentarii's afterlife in military memoirs / H. Schadee.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 333-371) and index.
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LCCN 2017048005
ISBN9781107023413 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9781107670495 (softcover : alk. paper)

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