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Nine contributions demonstrate that the appearance of simplicity in Julius Caesar's writings is achieved through subtle skill in the selection of style, language and content, which promotes Caesar and downplays Roman enemies.
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Caesar's limpid prose, often seen as straightforward and soldierly, is analyzed in these ten essays as the work of a self-conscious and consummate stylist, rhetor and politician, seeking to finesse sophisticated and well-informed Roman enemies and to advance a political career.
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Kathryn Welch is a specialist on the Late Republic she has published numerous articles in learned journals. Anton Powell is author of Athens and Sparta. He has edited several collective works including Roman Poetry and Propaganda in the Age of Augustus.
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Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter: The War Commentaries as Political Instruments
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The Classical Press of Wales, 1999
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Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter: The War Commentaries as Political Instruments
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Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter: The War Commentaries as Political Instruments
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The Classical Press of Wales, 1999
ISBN 10: 0715628593
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