| Autore |
Riggsby Andrew M
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
University of Texas Press, 2010
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (viii, 271 pages) : illustrations, map
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| Disciplina |
936.4/02
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| Soggetto non controllato |
Caesar, Julius
Gaul
Rome
History
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| ISBN |
9780292795792
0292795793
9780292774513
0292774516
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
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 -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Appendix A -- Bibliography -- Index.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910957581403321 |