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

Preface Introduction Part I. Histories of the Civil Wars: 1. Three men in a vote: proscription (Appian, Civil wars 4.1-6) 2. XPDNC: writing Caesar (On the civil war) Part II. Horace: 3. On getting rid of kings: Horace, Satires 1.7 4. Polishing off the politics: Horace's Ode to Pollio (Odes 2.1) Part III. Epic: 5. Lucan: the word at war 6. Statius' Thebaid: form (p)remade Part IV. Histories of Rome: 7. Tacitus: the world in pieces 8. Livy and the invention of history Date chart Bibliography Indexes.