William W Batstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 5627519 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William W Batstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | William W |
| FAMILY NAME | Batstone |
| SIGNATURE | BATSTONE W W |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Virgilian Didaxis
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Caesar Constructing Caesar
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A Graduate Level Latin Pedagogy Course in a Classics Ph.D. Program
A Graduate Level Latin Pedagogy Course in a Classics Ph.D. Program William W. Batstone This report will offer a brief history of the course on Latin pedagogy at The Ohio State University, its development, and current concerns. I think it is important to emphasize at the outset that this course is a work in progress. I also want to begin by noting that it is typical that pedagogy at research universities tends to become the concern of one faculty …
Oxford World's Classics: Sallust: Catiline's Conspiracy; The Jugurthine War; Histories
The Roman historian Sallust lived through troubled times. He deplored the moral and political decline of the Republic, and in his two monographs he set out to exemplify the reasons for the years of civil strife. Catiline's Conspiracy is an account of the rebellion against the state led by the disaffected Catiline. For Sallust it was ̀especially memorable because of the unprecedented nature of the crime and the danger it caused'. Rome's fight agai…
Word at War
This chapter examines Sallust's analysis of civil war at Rome with a particular focus on the Bellum Catilinae. It argues that, for Sallust, Romans fight with words as well as weapons, with no end in sight, and that a quality as quintessentially Roman as virtus was both a cause of civil war and what was destroyed by civil war. The chapter also addresses the problem of defining civil war in the late Republic, and the difficulty of finding closure.
Catullus and the Programmatic Poem
This chapter contains section titled: Definition and Examples Background Defining the Poetry Book or Sequence Poems about Poets and Poetry Performing the Program Conclusion and Redefinition
Choices
The narratives that we call Caesar’s Gallic Warand Civil Warwere spoken of by his contemporaries as the “records of his achievements.” The term here translated as “records” is commentarii(its singular form is commentarius). The word itself contains a reference to memory (the root -men-, also present in mention, memento, comment and, contracted, in amnesia), and our translation reflects the word’s etymology. The ancient evidence allows us to arriv…
Mastering Victory
The three preceding chapters explored Caesar’s literary achievement in the Civil Warin terms of genre, structure, and characterization, and began to place the work in its contexts both literary and political. This chapter looks at how Caesar presents himself to his contemporaries through his text. The focus is not on what he says about himself and his virtues—his superiority to Pompey as general, for example, which was treated in chapter 3—but on…
Writing Fighting War
Cicero, discussing Caesar’s Gallic Warcommentaries in a work on rhetoric and Latin style, made the general comment, “They really must be thought excellent. For they are naked and lovely, with every oratorical ornament stripped away like clothing. For in history nothing is sweeter than a pure and clear brevity” (Brutus262). In the preceding chapters we have seen Caesar’s style at work constructing arguments and offering an interpretation of people…
Structure as Argument in Civil War 1
In this chapter we argue that in book 1 of the Civil WarCaesar uses the commentary form for a new purpose. Caesar’s seven Gallic Warcommentaries have a consistent year-by-year structure and appear to function as reports to senators and others in Rome about Caesar’s achievements in Gaul. They offered a picture of Caesar the general and Caesar the man who brings order and civilization to the chaotic and warring provinces, but these political and rh…
Timeline of the Life of Caesar and the Civil War
Subject Ancient Roman History Textual Criticism Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Preliminary Note
Subject Ancient Roman History Textual Criticism Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Prominent Persons
Subject Ancient Roman History Textual Criticism Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Title Pages
Editor’s Foreword
Subject Ancient Roman History Textual Criticism Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Maps
Subject Ancient Roman History Textual Criticism Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Taking Sides, Making Sides
Characterization in a civil war narrative is more important, and more difficult, than it is in a colonial narrative, such as the Gallic War, of “us” against “them.” When the principal combatants are all Roman and all members of the governing elite, the difference between “us” and “them” needs careful delineation. But drawing the lines is complicated when the composition of the two parties shifts over time, as it did in dramatic fashion after the …
Epilogue
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Caesar’s Civil War
Caesar's Civil War is an unfinished masterpiece. It was abandoned by an author who found himself living in a different world than that which saw its commencement. A snapshot of the late republic, it offers a vivid and detailed account of the troubled Roman empire near the turn to the common era. In it, Caesar recounts his break with the Senate and general Pompey and narrates the events of the nineteen months of civil war that followed. It ends af…
Virgil on the Nature of Things
Dry Pumice and the Programmatic Language of Catullus 1
Virgilian didaxis
Despite the innumerable labours of many critics, Virgil's Georgics remains one of the most fundamentally intractable works of ancient literature. In recent years, most interpreters have agreed that the poem does not really tell us about farming but about ourselves and our world: 'didacticism about agriculture proves metaphor for didacticism about man'. While this consensus may result in part from a modern distaste for and unfamiliarity with agric…
Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry
The fragments of Furius Antias
Between Ennius and Vergil the Latin epic hexameter underwent dramatic changes in both prosody and diction. 1 The precise history of these changes remains obscure, although it is clear from Catullan spondiazontes and Lucretian archaisms, from variation in the use of enjambment and the history of Hermann's bridge, that the versatile and expressive instrument the hexameter was to become in Vergil's hands was not the result of linear development. In …
Amor Improbus, Felix Qui, and Tardus Apollo
Caesar’s Civil War
Caesar's Civil War is an unfinished masterpiece. It was abandoned by an author who found himself living in a different world than that which saw its commencement. A snapshot of the late republic, it offers a vivid and detailed account of the troubled Roman empire near the turn to the common era. In it, Caesar recounts his break with the Senate and general Pompey and narrates the events of the nineteen months of civil war that followed. It ends af…
Dry Pumice and the Programmatic Language of Catullus 1
A Narrative Gestalt and the Force of Caesar's Style
The fragments of Furius Antias
Between Ennius and Vergil the Latin epic hexameter underwent dramatic changes in both prosody and diction. 1 The precise history of these changes remains obscure, although it is clear from Catullan spondiazontes and Lucretian archaisms, from variation in the use of enjambment and the history of Hermann's bridge, that the versatile and expressive instrument the hexameter was to become in Vergil's hands was not the result of linear development. In …
Amor Improbus, Felix Qui, and Tardus Apollo
Incerta Pro Certis
Sallust's style is provocative and tendentious, but does his admitted moral tendentiousness carry over into a political or partisan tendentiousness? For centuries we have heard of Sallust the partisan, Sallust the propagandist, Sallustian bias. The history of this perceived bias began at least in the age of Augustus when the anonymous writer of the Invectio in Ciceronem set stylus to wax and began his fraud. Less than a century later (before 96 A…
The Antithesis of Virtue
Research Article| April 01 1988 The Antithesis of Virtue: Sallust's "Synkrisis" and the Crisis of the Late Republic William W. Batstone William W. Batstone Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Classical Antiquity (1988) 7 (1): 1–29. https://doi.org/10.2307/25010876 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Ge…
Etsi
A Narrative Gestalt and the Force of Caesar's Style
Amor Improbus, Felix Qui, and Tardus Apollo
Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry
The fragments of Furius Antias
Between Ennius and Vergil the Latin epic hexameter underwent dramatic changes in both prosody and diction. 1 The precise history of these changes remains obscure, although it is clear from Catullan spondiazontes and Lucretian archaisms, from variation in the use of enjambment and the history of Hermann's bridge, that the versatile and expressive instrument the hexameter was to become in Vergil's hands was not the result of linear development. In …
Virgilian didaxis
Despite the innumerable labours of many critics, Virgil's Georgics remains one of the most fundamentally intractable works of ancient literature. In recent years, most interpreters have agreed that the poem does not really tell us about farming but about ourselves and our world: 'didacticism about agriculture proves metaphor for didacticism about man'. While this consensus may result in part from a modern distaste for and unfamiliarity with agric…
Dry Pumice and the Programmatic Language of Catullus 1
Virgil on the Nature of Things
Choices
The narratives that we call Caesar’s Gallic Warand Civil Warwere spoken of by his contemporaries as the “records of his achievements.” The term here translated as “records” is commentarii(its singular form is commentarius). The word itself contains a reference to memory (the root -men-, also present in mention, memento, comment and, contracted, in amnesia), and our translation reflects the word’s etymology. The ancient evidence allows us to arriv…
Mastering Victory
The three preceding chapters explored Caesar’s literary achievement in the Civil Warin terms of genre, structure, and characterization, and began to place the work in its contexts both literary and political. This chapter looks at how Caesar presents himself to his contemporaries through his text. The focus is not on what he says about himself and his virtues—his superiority to Pompey as general, for example, which was treated in chapter 3—but on…
Writing Fighting War
Cicero, discussing Caesar’s Gallic Warcommentaries in a work on rhetoric and Latin style, made the general comment, “They really must be thought excellent. For they are naked and lovely, with every oratorical ornament stripped away like clothing. For in history nothing is sweeter than a pure and clear brevity” (Brutus262). In the preceding chapters we have seen Caesar’s style at work constructing arguments and offering an interpretation of people…
Structure as Argument in Civil War 1
In this chapter we argue that in book 1 of the Civil WarCaesar uses the commentary form for a new purpose. Caesar’s seven Gallic Warcommentaries have a consistent year-by-year structure and appear to function as reports to senators and others in Rome about Caesar’s achievements in Gaul. They offered a picture of Caesar the general and Caesar the man who brings order and civilization to the chaotic and warring provinces, but these political and rh…
Timeline of the Life of Caesar and the Civil War
Subject Ancient Roman History Textual Criticism Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Preliminary Note
Subject Ancient Roman History Textual Criticism Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Prominent Persons
Subject Ancient Roman History Textual Criticism Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Title Pages
Editor’s Foreword
Subject Ancient Roman History Textual Criticism Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Maps
Subject Ancient Roman History Textual Criticism Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Taking Sides, Making Sides
Characterization in a civil war narrative is more important, and more difficult, than it is in a colonial narrative, such as the Gallic War, of “us” against “them.” When the principal combatants are all Roman and all members of the governing elite, the difference between “us” and “them” needs careful delineation. But drawing the lines is complicated when the composition of the two parties shifts over time, as it did in dramatic fashion after the …
Epilogue
Subject Ancient Roman History Textual Criticism Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Caesar’s Civil War
Caesar's Civil War is an unfinished masterpiece. It was abandoned by an author who found himself living in a different world than that which saw its commencement. A snapshot of the late republic, it offers a vivid and detailed account of the troubled Roman empire near the turn to the common era. In it, Caesar recounts his break with the Senate and general Pompey and narrates the events of the nineteen months of civil war that followed. It ends af…
Catullus and the Programmatic Poem
This chapter contains section titled: Definition and Examples Background Defining the Poetry Book or Sequence Poems about Poets and Poetry Performing the Program Conclusion and Redefinition
Oxford World's Classics: Sallust: Catiline's Conspiracy; The Jugurthine War; Histories
The Roman historian Sallust lived through troubled times. He deplored the moral and political decline of the Republic, and in his two monographs he set out to exemplify the reasons for the years of civil strife. Catiline's Conspiracy is an account of the rebellion against the state led by the disaffected Catiline. For Sallust it was ̀especially memorable because of the unprecedented nature of the crime and the danger it caused'. Rome's fight agai…
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