Caesar in Gaul and Rome : war in words / Andrew M. Riggsby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riggsby, Andrew M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caesar, Julius--Military leadership.

Caesar, Julius.

Caesar, Julius--Political activity.

Gaul--History--Gallic Wars, 58-51 B.C--Political aspects.

Gaul.

Rome--History, Military--265-30 B.C.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 271 pages) : illustrations, map

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of Texas Press 2010

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Anyone who has even a passing acquaintance with Latin knows 'Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres' ('All Gaul is divided into three parts'), the opening line of De Bello Gallico, Julius Caesar's famous commentary on his campaigns against the Gauls in the 50s BC. But what did Caesar intend to accomplish by writing and publishing his commentaries, how did he go about it, and what potentially unforeseen consequences did his writing have? These are the questions that Andrew Riggsby pursues in this fresh interpretation of one of the masterworks of Latin prose. Riggsby uses contemporary literary methods to examine the historical impact that the commentaries had on the Roman reading public.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Social Life of Texts

The Composition of De Bello Gallico

Reality and Representation

1. Where Was the Gallic War?

Types of Space

Geographic Space in De Bello Gallico

Tactical Space, Surveying, and the Possession of Gaul

2. The "Other" and the Other "Other"

The Ethnographic Tradition

Caesar's Ethnography

3. Technology, Virtue, Victory

Siegecraft in De Bello Gallico

Virtus in De Bello Gallico

The Gallic Assimilation of Virtus

Conclusion

4. Alien Nation

Playing the Cannibal

Rhetorics of Empire

What Is a Roman?

5. Formal Questions

Who and What?

To What End?

Whose Voice?

6. Empire and the "Just War"

The Theory of the Just War

Just War Theory in the Real World

Cicero's Textual Practice

Caesar's Textual Practice

7. New and Improved, Sort Of

Facing the Alternatives

Comparanda

How Does Caesar Compare?

Propaganda

Appendix A: Wars against "Barbarians"

Appendix B: Generals' Inscriptions

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Appendix A

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-267) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780292795792

0292795793

9780292774513

0292774516

OCLC:

608753433