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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Art of Caesar's Bellum Civile
• Subtitle: Literature, Ideology, and Community
• Author: Grillo, Luca (Amherst College, Massachusetts)
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234
• EAN: 9781107470675
• ISBN: 1107470676
• ID: 09098259
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 348 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 154 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. March 2015

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