01Scholastic
Julius Caesar · 49–48 BC
The Civil War
DE BELLO CIVILICaesar’s account of the rupture with Pompey, campaigns in Italy and Spain, and victory at Pharsalus.
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Latin
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02Modern Critical
Julius Caesar · 58–50 BC
The Gallic War
DE BELLO GALLICOCaesar’s campaign narrative from the migration of the Helvetii through the conquest of Gaul and Hirtius’s continuation.
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Vergil · 29–19 BC
The Aeneid
AENEISVergil’s epic of exile, divine anger, war, and the difficult founding of a Roman future.
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Vergil · c. 42–39 BC
Eclogues
ECLOGAETen pastoral poems in which song, land, love, loss, and political violence meet.
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Vergil · c. 37–29 BC
Georgics
GEORGICONA poem of cultivation, labor, weather, animals, civic order, violence, and renewal.
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