Caesar in Gaul and Rome: War in Words, by Andrew M. Riggsby. University of Texas Press, Austin: 2006
Introduction (1-20)
Social Life of Texts
Composition of De Bello Gallico
Reality and Representation
Chapter 1: Where was the Gallic War? (21-46)
Types of Space
Geographic Space in De Bello Gallico
Tactical Space, Surveying,a nd the Possession of Gaul
Chapter 2: The ‘Other’ and the Other ‘Other’ (47-72)
The Ethnographic Tradition
Caesar’s Ethnography
Chapter 3: Technology, Virtue, Victory (73-106)
Siegecraft in De Bello Gallico
Virtus in De Bello Gallico
The Gallic Assimilation of Virtus
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Alien Nation (107-132)
Playing the Cannibal
Rhetorics of Empire
What Is a Roman?
Chapter 5: Formal Questions (133-156)
Who and What?
To What End?
Whose Voice?
Chapter 6: Empire and the “Just War” (157-190)
The Theory of the Just War
Just War Theory in the Real World
Cicero’s Textual Practice
Caesar’s Textual Practice
Chapter 7: New and Improved, Sort Of (191-214)
Facing the Alternatives
Comparanda
How does Caesar Compare?
Propaganda
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