Caesar's Civil War

Name: Caesar's Civil War
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ISBN: 9780195165111

ISBN-10: 019516511X

ISBN-13: 9780195165111

Edition: 2006

Authors: William W. Batstone, Cynthia Damon

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Caesar's Civil War, the story of the general's contest with the Pompeian party through nineteen months of civil war, is an unfinished masterpiece. The author abandoned it when he found himself living in a different world than that which saw its commencement. The narrative ends after Pompey's death, amidst the preliminaries to the Alexandrian war that initiated the next phase of the fight for primacy of Rome. The work shows the brilliance for which Caesar's oratory, like his generalship, was known: it was a political judgment, not a literary one, that relegated the Civil War to the file drawer. The primary topics covered in this introductory book are the generic background of Caesar's…

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List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/19/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 8.19" wide x 5.39" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Editors' Foreword


Preliminary Note


Introduction



Choices: Genre, Content, Style



Structure as Argument in Civil War



Taking Sides, Making Sides



Mastering Victory



Writing Fighting War


Epilogue: Surviving Failure