[publicclassics] R.W.Westall, , Caesar's Civil War. Historical Reality and Fabrication

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Richard W. Westall has kindly shared this announcement:


Richard W. Westall

Caesar's Civil War. Historical Reality and Fabrication. MNS-HACA, 410.
Leiden: Brill 2018 (out now)

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.


     Table of contents
     Acknowledgements
     List of Maps
     List of Block Quotations
     Abbreviations

     1 Introduction

     2 The Civil War of 49–48 BCE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

     Conclusion

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


ISBN13: 9789004356146
E-ISBN: 9789004356153
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