文档介绍：CivilCaesar’s War
Oxford Approaches to
Classical Literature
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Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Elaine Fantham
Plato’s Symposium
Richard Hunter
CivilCaesar’s War
William W. Batstone
Cynthia Damon
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2006
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Batstone, William Wendell.
Caesar’s Civil War / William W. Batstone and Cynthia Damon
p. cm. —(Oxford approaches to classical literature)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13 978-0-19-516510-4; 978-0-19-516511-1 (pbk.)
ISBN 0-19-516510-1; 0-19-516511-X (pbk.)
1. Caesar, Julius. De bello civili.
2. Rome—History—Civil War, 49–45 .—
Literature and the war I. Damon, Cynthia, 1957–
II. Title. III. Series.
2006
937'.05—dc22 2006000597
246897531
Printed in the United States of America
on acid-free paper
Editors’ Foreword
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