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

by John Henderson

For the Roman writers "Fighting for Rome" became not the expansive imperialism of the all-conquering Republic, but a collapse into horror and un-Roman autocracy brought about by the Caesars' fighting for control of Rome. The essays in this volume range across the literary forms--history and satire, lyric and epic--working closely with particular texts. Conceived over the decade after the Cold War, they have been updated and rewritten to make a book that brings the ancient texts before the reader in a strikingly immediate way.

360 pages, Hardcover

First published March 12, 1998

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John Henderson (1948- )

Henderson, John Graham Wilmot
Other names
Henderson, John G. W.
Henderson, J. G. W.
Birthdate
1948-06-09
Gender
male
Nationality
UK
Occupations
classical scholar
Organizations
University of Cambridge, King's College