Author or Editor: Andrew M. Riggsby
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2006
ISBN: 0-292-71303-7
Pages: 271
Size: 2,66MB
This book is a study of what is—in many senses—an already well-known historical event: Julius Caesar’s De Bello Gallico, or Gallic War.1 To think of texts as events is certainly in line with various historicist tendencies in the field of Classics in general, but it is also an approach that has come to be seen as particularly appropriate to this work.2 For one thing, the direct evidence for De Bello Gallico is incomparably better than that for the Gallic War fought in the 50’s b.c.3 We have the former actually before us (though not its prior composition nor its subsequent circulation). Slightly less obviously, however, we have much better controls for the War than for the War.
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