Research Catalog

Title

The Cambridge companion to the writings of Julius Caesar / edited by Luca Grillo, Christopher B. Krebs.

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Grillo, Luca, 1970-
• Krebs, Christopher B.

Description

xiv, 396 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

[Cambridge companions to literature]

Uniform Title

Cambridge companions to literature.

Subjects

• Historiography
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Caesar, Julius > Criticism and interpretation
• Caesar, Julius > Sources
• Historiography > Rome
• Sources
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Caesar, Julius > Influence
• Rome (Empire)

Genre/Form

• Sources.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Series from publisher's website.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-371) and indexes.

Contents

Introduction. Caesarian questions : then, now, hence / Luca Grillo and Christopher B. Krebs -- Part I. Literature and politics. Caesar, literature, and politics at the end of the Republic / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- More than words. The Commentarii in their propagandistic context / Christopher B. Krebs -- Caesar constructing Caesar / William Batstone -- Priesthoods, gods, and stars / Jörg Rüpke -- The politics of geography / Andrew M. Riggsby -- Nostri and "the other(s)" / Andrew C. Johnston -- Part II. Genre, rhetoric, language, and style. Genres and generic contaminations : the Commentarii / Debra L. Nousek -- A style of choice / Christopher B. Krebs -- Speeches in the Commentarii / Luca Grillo -- Wit and irony / Anthony Corbeill -- Literary approaches to Caesar : three case studies / Luca Grillo -- Part III. Fragmentary works. Caesar the linguist : the debate about the Latin language / Giuseppe Pezzini -- Caesar's orations / Henriette van der Blom -- Caesar's poetry in its context / Sergio Casali -- Anticato / Anthony Corbeill -- Innovation and cliché : the letters of Caesar / Ruth Morello -- Part IV. Sources and Nachleben. Caesar and Greek historians / Luke Pitcher -- Caesar and Roman historiography prior to the Commentarii / Martine Chassignet -- The Corpus Caesarianum / Jan Felix Gaertner -- Caesar in Livy and Tacitus / Christina Shuttleworth Kraus -- Caesar in Vergil and Lucan / Timothy A. Joseph -- Narrating the Gallic and Civil Wars with and beyond Caesar / James Thorne -- Writing war with Caesar : the Commentarii's afterlife in military memoirs / Hester Schadee.

Call Number

JFE 18-1024

ISBN

• 9781107023413
• 1107023416
• 9781107670495
• 1107670497

LCCN

2017048005

OCLC

1010620484

Title

The Cambridge companion to the writings of Julius Caesar / edited by Luca Grillo, Christopher B. Krebs.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

[Cambridge companions to literature]

Cambridge companions to literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-371) and indexes.

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Available to Stanford-affiliated users.

Added Author

Grillo, Luca, 1970- editor.

Krebs, Christopher B., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-1024