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Caesar's <i>Civil War</i>: Historical Reality and Fabrication de Richard W. Westall

Caesar's <i>Civil War</i>: Historical Reality and Fabrication: Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, cartea 410

Autor Richard W. Westall
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 dec 2017
In Caesar's Civil War: Historical Reality and Fabrication, Westall combines literary analysis of Caesar’s Bellum Civile with a concern for the socio-economic history of the Roman empire. The Bellum Gallicum and the Shakespearean play are better known, but Caesar’s partisan account of the Roman civil war culminating in the battle of Pharsalus offers a historical text of perennial interest and relevance.
Two introductory chapters contextualize this book and offer a traditional narrative of political and military history for 49-48 BCE. There follow seven chapters that are dedicated to each of the geographical theatres of civil war. These chapters show how Caesar’s testimony sheds important light upon the nature of Roman rule in the Mediterranean, but also explore the problems to be encountered in using potentially tendentious testimony.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004356146
ISBN-10: 9004356142
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
List of Maps
List of Block Quotations
Abbreviations

1 Introduction

2 The Civil War of 49–48BCE

3 Italia
Introduction
1Crossing the Rubicon
2Opening the Sanctius Aerarium
3The Sources of Soldiers
Conclusion

4 Hispania
1Laudes Hispaniae
2C. Caesar and Hispania
3Cn. Pompeius and Hispania
4The Significance of Clientelae

5 Gallia
1Omnis Gallia Germaniaque
2Massilia an Ally
3Massilia a Provincial Capital?
4Geopolitical Considerations
5Chagrin at Massilia
6Massilia and Phocaea, or the Theme of Libertas

6 Africa
Introduction
1The Sources of Caesar’s Narrative
2Legitimacy of Command
3Roman Armies in North Africa
4The Grain of Africa
Conclusion

7 Macedonia
1Caesar Fleeing Forwards
2Pompeius’ Preparations for 48BCE
3Life in the Military
4Other Than Soldiers
5Supply-Lines
6The Provincial Burden

8 Asia
1From Pharsalus to Alexandria
2Ephesus Capital of Asia
3The Ceremony and Rhetoric of Arrival
4Caesar and the Sanctuary of Artemis of Ephesus

9 Aegyptus
1Of Civil Wars Roman and Egyptian
2The Wealth of Egypt
3Banking and Imperialism

Conclusion

Weights, Measures, and Currencies
Maps: Theatres of War in 49–48BCE
Bibliography
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Modern Authors
General Index

Notă biografică

Richard Westall, Ph.D. (2000, Stanford University) is Adjunct professor at the Pontificia Università Gregoriana (Rome). He has published numerous articles on Roman history, Graeco-Roman historiography, and early Christianity.

Recenzii

"[Westall] geht es nicht um die bloße Darstellung der Ereignisse durch Caesar und andere als vielmehr darum, die in den diversen Regionen liegenden – häufig wirtschaftlich bedingten – römischen Interessen namhaft zu machen, die ebenso historisch verankert sind wie im aktuellen Bürgerkrieg für die beteiligten Parteien besondere Brisanz gewinnen. Zugleich entzaubert W[estall] Caesars tendenziöse Berichterstattung in prägnanten Interpretationen, teilweise anhand scharfsinniger Quellenvergleiche. (...) Unter Herausstellung der Bedeutung bestimmter geographischer Räume im Gefolge der Bürgerkriegsdarstellung Caesars erlauben W[estall]s Kontextualisierungsbemühungen interessante Einsichten auf verschiedenen Ebenen, die durch Überlegungen zur sozioökonomischen Lage Roms verbunden werden." Ulrich Lambrecht, Gymnasium 126, 2019.
"To sum up, W[estall] has provided a fresh and masterful analysis of Caesar’s civil war commentary. His study offers new and valuable insights into the history of the period. Careful attention is paid at every turn to Caesar’s method of justifying his actions as a response to supposed stubborn and unreasonable resistance on the part of his opponents. The author’s application of critical methods yields interesting and important results. The structure of the book makes it accessible to a broad range of readers, from someone new to the subject to an advanced scholar. By offering a narrative overview of the war in Chapter 2 and then segmenting the campaigns chronologically and geographically in the seven subsequent chapters, the book succeeds in exploring a complex set of questions with perfect clarity. This book is a credit to the author and to the series in which it appeared. Every university library should include this book in its holdings, and every scholar who studies this period of Roman history will gain from W[estall's] fresh insight into Caesar’s Bellum Civile." John T. Ramsey, Histos 14, 2020, xxxv-xliv.