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The Art of Caesar's Bellum Civile Literature, Ideology, and Community

Comprehensive exploration of the artistic properties and intellectual complexity of Caesar's Bellum Civile, showing the interaction of literature and politics.

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  • "Comprehensive exploration of the artistic properties and intellectual complexity of Caesar's Bellum Civile, showing the interaction of literature and politics."@en
  • ""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 for self-advertisement. A comprehensive approach, such as has been productively applied to Augustus' program, locates the Bellum Civile at the interplay between literature, images and politics"--"
  • ""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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  • "The art of Caesar's Bellum Civile : literature, ideology, and community"
  • "The Art of Caesar's Bellum Civile Literature, Ideology, and Community"@en
  • "The art of Caesar's Bellum Civile : Literature, ideology, and community"
  • "The art of Caesar's "Bellum Civile" : literature, ideology, and community"
  • "The art of Caesar's Bellum Civile : literature, ideology and community"
  • "The art of Caesar's Bellum Civile literature, ideology, and community"
  • "The art of Caesar's Bellum civile : literature, ideology, and community"

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