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A fresh interpretation of Julius Caesar's Gallic War that focuses on Caesar's construction of national identity and his self-presentation.

Table of Contents
  • 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"
  • Apppendix B: Generals' Inscriptions
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Caesar in Gaul and Rome

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/07/2006
      ISBN13: 9780292726178, 978-0292726178
      ISBN10: 0292726171

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A fresh interpretation of Julius Caesar's Gallic War that focuses on Caesar's construction of national identity and his self-presentation.

      Table of Contents
      • 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"
      • Apppendix B: Generals' Inscriptions
      • Notes
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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