Caesar in Gaul and Rome : war in words / by Andrew M. Riggsby.
In the first part of his study, Riggsby considers how Caesar defined Roman identity and its relationship to non-Roman others. He shows how Caesar opens up a possible vision of the political future in which the distinction between Roman and non-Roman becomes less important because of their joint subm...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | In the first part of his study, Riggsby considers how Caesar defined Roman identity and its relationship to non-Roman others. He shows how Caesar opens up a possible vision of the political future in which the distinction between Roman and non-Roman becomes less important because of their joint submission to a Caesar-like leader. In the second part, Riggsby analyzes Caesar's political self-fashioning and the potential effects of his writing and publishing the Gallic War. He reveals how Caesar presents himself as a subtly new kind of Roman general who deserves credit not only for his own virtues, but for those of his soldiers as well. Riggsby uses case studies of key topics (spatial representation, ethnography, virtus and technology, genre, and the just war), augmented by more synthetic discussions that bring in evidence from other Roman and Greek texts, to offer a broad picture of the themes of national identity and Caesar's self-presentation."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 271 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780292795792 0292795793 0292713037 9780292713031 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |