Απομνημονεύματα περί του γαλατικού πολέμου
Ιούλιος Καίσαρ, -58
Caesar's own dispatch from the front: eight years of sieges, ships and betrayed tribes, written in the third person by the man commanding them.
Ιούλιος Καίσαρ
Caesar wrote the commentaries as political ammunition, sending them to Rome to shape his reputation; the third-person voice ('Caesar did this') keeps him sounding like history rather than a memoirist.
Feels like war, power and awe.
The enemy laughed at the Romans' little tower. Then it started moving.
Ὡς δὲ προσαχθεισῶν τῶν στοῶν καὶ χώματος ἀνεγερθέντος εἶδον μακρὰν πύργον ἀνιδρυόμενον, τὸ μὲν πρῶτον κατεγέλων ἐκ τοῦ τείχους καὶ ἔσκωπτον διὰ λόγων, ὅτι τηλικαύτη μηχανὴ ἀπὸ τοσαύτης ἀποστάσεως ἀνηγείρετο: διὰ ποίων ἆρα χειρῶν ἢ διὰ ποίων δυνάμεων ἀνθρωπάρια μάλιστα τηλικαῦτα τὸ μέγεθος (διότι εἰς ἄνδρας Γαλάτας ὡς ἐκ τοῦ μεγέθους τῶν σωμάτων αὑτῶν ἡ βραχύτης ἡμῶν φαίνεται ἀξιοκαταφρόνητος) πιστεύουσι νὰ κινήσωσι πύργον τοσούτου βάρους; Books by Ιούλιος Καίσαρ
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