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Fighting for Rome : Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War
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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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521580267
- ISBN-10: 0521580269
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: March 1998
- Dimensions: 9.32 x 6.32 x 0.96 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.34 pounds
- Page Count: 360
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