Caesar and the Bellum Alexandrinum An Analysis of Style, Narrative

Jan Felix Gaertner, Bianca C.
Hausburg
Caesar and the Bellum
Alexandrinum
An Analysis of Style, Narrative
Technique, and the Reception of
Greek Historiography
The book is the first monograph on the
Bellum Alexandrinum for 80 years. It
demonstrates that the Bellum Alexandrinum
is heterogeneous with regard to its style,
narrative technique, and the density and
quality of the historical information. This
suggests that the work is a conglutination of
accounts by a number of different authors.
Hypomnemata Untersuchungen zur Antike
und zu ihrem Nachleben, Band 192
1. Edition 2013
372 pages
The first section is likely to go back to
Julius Caesar himself. The analysis sheds
new light on the composition of the Corpus
Caesarianum, the war of words preceding
and following Caesar’s assassination, and
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the development of Roman historiography
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in the first century B.C.
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