Caesar's De analogia / edition, translation, and commentary by Alessandro Garcea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garcea, Alessandro.

Contributor:

Caesar, Julius.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caesar, Julius. De analogia.

Caesar, Julius.

Latin language--Grammar.

Latin language.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Physical Description:

xiii, 304 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Summary:

At the end of the Republic, religious, legal, and literary knowledge began to take the form of a 'Roman heritage', as broadly defined as it was indefinite. Caesar, like Cicero, thought that language, along with political institutions and laws, constituted the fundamental feature which defined the identity of a people. So, as with statutes, libraries, and the calendar, he intended to fix general laws in the sphere of language with his treatise De analogia in order to establish a solid foundation for Latin-a language whose evolution was driven by the need to preserve heritage and by confrontations with the linguistic habits of the allies of Rome.

In this volume Garcea brings together for the first time the fragments of Caesar's De analogia with a complete translation and commentary. Contextualising the text and its quotation by Pliny in his Dubius sermo, Charisius, Priscian, and other Latin grammarians, Garcea presents the issues raised by means of comparison with the texts of Caesar's interlocutors-principally Cicero, Varro, Nigidius Figulus, and Philodemus of Gadara. The study of all these sources, most of which have never been translated into a modern language, fills a gap in the representation of the history of linguistic development in the classical period-ultimately portraying how in republican Rome, there was still no clear distinction between the different subdivisions of learning. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Introduction

1 Inter tela uolantia 3

A Caesarian Politics 3

B Linguistic Politics 7

C Eclecticism 10

D Polemics and Debates 13

E Analogy and the Latin Grammatical Tradition 15

2 The Writing of De analogia 19

A Caesar's Intellectual Education 19

B Some Chronological Reference Points 24

C The Title of the Treatise 26

3 Caesar's Grammatical Stance 30

A Questions De orthographia 33

B Derivation and Inflection 35

C Analogy and Conventionalism 39

Appendix: The Grammatical Excursus in Cicero's Orator 42

Part II Cicero, Caesar, and the Oratores Elegantes: Recreating a Debate at a Distance

4 The Rhetorical Doctrine of Elegantia 49

A The Virtutes orationis 49

B From Theory to History: De oratore versus Brutus 53

5 Cicero and Caesar's De analogia 78

A Marcellus and Caesar 78

B The Introduction to De analogia 81

C Controlling Language Change 98

D Analogy, Usage, and the Alexandrian Tradition 103

E Caesar the Prose Writer 109

6 Rhetoric and Grammar in Roman Epicureanism 114

A Purity and Clarity 115

B Caesar's Supposed Neo-Atticism 119

Part III Texts, Translations, and Commentary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-289) and index.

Related Work:

Caesar, Julius. De analogia.

ISBN:

0199603979

9780199603978

OCLC:

757147137