What Would Pompey Do? Exempla and Pompeian Failure in the Bellum Africum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9308008 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aislinn Melchior (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 241-257 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8353 • E-ISSN: 2327-5812 |
| Publisher | Classical Association of the Middle West and South (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tcj.2009.0008 |
| OpenAlex | W1494074345 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
One measure of being a good Roman is how one participates in the social world of exempla. The author of the "Bellum Africum" represents the Pompeians as incapable of recognizing the lessons of the past and applying them to improve upon the celebrated history of the Republic, and thus as unfit to lead the Roman state
Ancient history · Roman history · State (computer science · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Computer Science · History
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Speeches in the Commentarii
Caesar and Roman Historiography Prior to the Commentarii
The Politics of Geography
Anticato
Caesar the Linguist
Priesthoods, Gods, and Stars
Literary Approaches to Caesar
Caesar’s Orations
Narrating the Gallic and Civil Wars with and beyond Caesar
Caesar, Literature, and Politics at the End of the Republic
Caesar Constructing Caesar
Caesar and Greek Historians
Genres and Generic Contaminations
Wit and Irony
The Corpus Caesarianum
Nostri and “The Other(s)”
Caesar in Livy and Tacitus
More Than Words. The Commentarii in their Propagandistic Context
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| Citations per year | 2.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |