Fighting for Rome: Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War

For the Roman writers "Fighting for Rome" became not the expansive imperialism of the all-conquering Republic, but a collapse into horror and un-Roman autocracy brought about by the Caesars' fighting for control of Rome. The essays in this volume range across the literary forms--history and satire, lyric and epic--working closely with particular texts. Conceived over the decade after the Cold War, they have been updated and rewritten to make a book that brings the ancient texts before the reader in a strikingly immediate way.

• | Author: John Henderson
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 13, 1998
• | Number of Pages: 360 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0521580269
• | ISBN-13: 9780521580267