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

By John Henderson

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521028663
• ISBN13: 9780521028660
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"