Gallic War Songs: Furius Bibaculus’ <i>Annales Belli Gallici</i>

Kruschwitz, Peter

doi:10.1524/phil.2010.0022

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“…In seeking to secure Caesar an extension for his command along the northern border, Cicero presents him as being even greater than Marius, who had merely defended Italy from "enormous multitudes of Gauls" who had "poured in"-thereby portraying the Alps as a periodically ineffective flood barrier. 29 Such similes connecting forces of nature with northern barbarians were extremely common in this era. Caesar, Cicero argues, is instead taking the fight to the other side of the mountain wall, which Italy had been fortified (munierat) with by nature itself.…”

Section: Alps As the Murus Or Tutamen Of Italy In The Late Republicmentioning

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Breaching the Alps

Lampinen

2021

Hist. flux (Online)

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The Roman preoccupation with the Alps as the tutamen of Italy owed its epistemic immediacy to a much more recent event—the Cimbric Wars (113-101 BCE). This traumatic episode had reawakened imagery of the northern enemies penetrating the “Wall of Italy,” which in some cases went all the way back to the Mid-Republican narrative traditions of the Gallic Invasions and the much more frequently debated shock of Hannibal’s invasion. The significance of this imagery continued even beyond the Augustan era, so that remnants of the same Roman insecurity about the “Wall of Italy” being breached, especially by northerners, are preserved in narratives about later Julio-Claudians such as Caligula and Nero. This article first looks at the likely origins of the idea of the Alps as the “Wall of Italy” in Middle-Republican perceptions, projected back onto the past and presenting Rome as predestined to dominate Italy and the Gauls in particular as external intruders in the peninsula. Next, the Late Republican and Augustan stages of the motif is reviewed, and the impact of the Cimbric Wars on this imagery is debated. Finally, there will be brief discussion of anecdotes found in Tacitus and Suetonius about later Julio-Claudian episodes in which the fear of a northern invasion breaching the Alps seem to have gripped the Romans.

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Section: Alps As the Murus Or Tutamen Of Italy In The Late Republicmentioning

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Breaching the Alps

Lampinen

2021

Hist. flux (Online)

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“…20) He began himself to study and practice little by little, omitting none of those exercises by which artists of that kind preserve and strengthen their voices. Rather, he would lie on his back, holding a lead tablet on his chest, 55. usually, following the scholia, this incompetent poet is seen to be Furius Bibaculus, but Kruschwitz (2010) is very persuasive in counselling caution.…”

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It All Comes Out: Vomit as a Source of Comedy in Roman Moralizing Texts

Goh

2018

Illinois Classical Studies

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Retching is important for Roman cultural history and medicine; in this article i assess vomit's appearances in latin literature. Humor is created by the detailed revelation of habitual, inappropriate, and excessive behaviors by named targets, such as the emperors claudius and vitellius, and mark antony, accused by cicero in Philippics 2, especially. alcohol abuse and gluttony feature in invective against character types who vomit, such as the stock figures of the drunken hostess and faithful wife at sea in Juvenal 6, martial's lesbian Philaenis, and the cautionary tale of the patient who relapses and dies to which the hungover stoic student is subjected in Persius 3. i end with the self-mocking visualizations of (bad) poetry as vomit in several Horatian passages alongside nero's voice-training purges.

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Early Latin Poetry

Elliott

2022

BRP Classical Poetry

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This analysis explores aspects of the extant fragmentary record of early Roman poetry from its earliest accessible moments through roughly the first hundred and twenty years of its traceable existence. Key questions include how ancient readers made sense of the record as then available to them and how the limitations of their accounts, assumptions, and working methods continue to define the contours of our understanding today. Both using and challenging the standard conceptual frameworks operative in the ancient world, the discussion details what we think we know of the best documented forms, practitioners, contexts, and reception of Roman drama (excluding comedy), epic, and satire in their early instantiations, with occasional glances at the further generic experimentation that accompanied the genesis of literary practice in Rome.

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Gallic War Songs: Furius Bibaculus’ Annales Belli Gallici

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Breaching the Alps

Breaching the Alps

It All Comes Out: Vomit as a Source of Comedy in Roman Moralizing Texts

Early Latin Poetry

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