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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-371) and index.
TRPHO/2019/CRB/330/144
GBP 24.99

Introduction. Caesarian questions: then, now, hence / L. Grillo and C. Krebs -- Literature and politics. Caesar, literature and politics at the end of the Republic / K. Raaflaub -- The Commentarii in their propagandistic context / C. Krebs -- Caesar constructing Caesar / W. Batstone -- Priesthoods, gods and stars / J. Rüpke -- The politics of geography / A. Riggsby -- Nostri and "the other(s)" / A. Johnston -- Genre, rhetoric, language and style. Genres and generic contaminations in the Commentarii / D. Nousek -- Caesar's style / C. Krebs -- Speeches in the Commentarii / L. Grillo -- Wit and irony / A. Corbeill -- Literary approaches to Caesar / L. Grillo -- Fragmentary works. Caesar the linguist: the debate about the Latin language / G. Pezzini -- Caesar's orations / H. van der Blom -- Caesar's poetry in its context / Sergio Casali -- Anticato / A. Corbeill -- The letters of Caesar / R. Morello -- Sources and Nachleben. Caesar and Greek historians / L. Pitcher -- Caesar and Roman historiography prior to the Commentarii / M. Chassignet -- The Corpus Caesarianum / J. F. Gaertner -- Caesar in Livy and Tacitus / C. S. Kraus -- Caesar, Virgil and Lucan / T. Joseph -- Narrating the Gallic and Civil Wars with and beyond Caesar / J. Thorne -- Writing war with Caesar: the Commentarii's afterlife in military memoirs / H. Schadee.