HIST 3131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Helvetii, Aulus Hirtius, Self-Defense
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Caesar composed 7 books, close supported, hirtius, wrote book 8. As he went along: purhaps a book written at the end of each campaign season. Only in book 4 speeches are attributed to characters. Book 2, caesar reports the tribe of the noii were completely wiped out. Starting to be seen as a historical composition. In book 5, there is a different story, about fighting the gauls and others on the territory. None of the contradictions however, are conclusive to caesar. Some say he made of falsehoods that made himself look better than he really was. These cannot really be confirmed, but are often used to contradict caesar. Look at the ideological light of the war, generally about what we know about the generality of. Caesar used a number of the standard justifications for war conventional in roman culture. The helvetii wars (1. 10-11), against arivistus and the germans (1. 33-34, cf. 43), wars against the.
