"On March 15th, 44 BC a group of senators stabbed Julius Caesar, the dictator of Rome. By his death, they hoped to restore Rome's Republic. Instead, they unleashed a revolution. By December of that year, Rome was plunged into a violent civil war. Three men--Mark Antony, Lepidus,…
"In his Commentarii de Bello Civili Julius Caesar sought to re-invent his image and appear before his present and future readers in a way which he could control and at times manipulate. Offering a new interpretation of the Bellum Civile this book reveals the intricate literary w…
"In his Commentarii de Bello Civili Julius Caesar sought to re-invent his image and appear before his present and future readers in a way which he could control and at times manipulate. Offering a new interpretation of the Bellum Civile this book reveals the intricate literary w…
Biografie van de Romeinse veldheer en staatsman (100 v. Chr.-44 v. Chr.)
Lucan's life and times : vitae and other evidence -- Lucan's antiphrastic epos -- Book IV and its place in the poem -- Language and style -- Diction -- Syntax and word order -- Rhetorical devices -- Meter -- Note on the Latin text -- Conspectus siglorum -- Text and translation -…
