C & EC: Contextual materials

Classics

Ancient narratives (primary)

Crossing the Rubicon

Lucan, Bellum Civile

https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/PharsaliaImaster.php

1.67-97 (legends of the fall)

1.183-227 (this is our archetypal ancient Latin epic ‘telling’, exemplifying fictionality in the context of myth and topos)

Plutarch, Caesar 32

http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg048.perseus-eng1:32

Suetonius, Divus Iulius 31-32

http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi1348.abo011.perseus-eng1:31

Scholarship / secondary materials

Beneker, Jeffrey. 2011. ‘The Crossing of the Rubicon and the Outbreak of Civil War in Cicero, Lucan, Plutarch, and Suetonius’. Phoenix 65 (1–2): 74–99. https://doi.org/10.1353/phx.2011.0024.
Borges, Jorge Luis ‘The Art of Poetry’ http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/jorge_luis_borges/poems/2913 or https://www.babelmatrix.org/works/es/Borges%2C_Jorge_Luis-1899/Arte_po%C3%A9tica/en/33313-The_Art_Of_Poetry (includes Spanish original)
Buszard, Bradley. 2008. ‘Caesar’s Ambition: A Combined Reading of Plutarch’s Alexander-Caesar and Pyrrhus-Marius’. Transactions of the American Philological Association 138: 185–215. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40212079
Eagle, Antony. 2021. ‘Chance versus Randomness’. In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2021), Edward N. Zalta (ed.). https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2021/entries/chance-randomness/
Harper, Kyle. 2016. ‘The Environmental Fall of the Roman Empire’. Daedalus 145 (2): 101–11. https://doi.org/10.1162/DAED_a_00380.
Hughes, J. Donald. 2004. ‘Social Structure and Environmental Impact in the Roman Empire’. Capitalism Nature Socialism 15 (3): 29–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/1045575042000247220.
Kotva, Alyssa. January 2024.‘Julius Caesar Crosses the Rubicon’. Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective. https://origins.osu.edu/read/julius-caesar-crosses-rubicon
Luterbacher, Jürg, Ricardo García-Herrera, Sena Akcer-On, Rob Allan, Maria-Carmen Alvarez-Castro, Gerardo Benito, Jonathan Booth, et al. 2012. ‘A Review of 2000 Years of Paleoclimatic Evidence in the Mediterranean’. In The Climate of the Mediterranean Region, 87–185. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-416042-2.00002-1.
McCormick, Michael, Ulf Büntgen, Mark A. Cane, Edward R. Cook, Kyle Harper, Peter Huybers, Thomas Litt, et al. 2012. ‘Climate Change during and after the Roman Empire: Reconstructing the Past from Scientific and Historical Evidence’. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 43 (2): 169–220. https://doi.org/10.1162/JINH_a_00379.
Maguire, Robert Alington. 2023. ‘How Julius Caesar Crossed the Rubicon and Took Ariminum’. Antigone Journal. https://antigonejournal.com/2023/09/julius-caesar-crossing-rubicon/
Marx, Werner, Robin Haunschild, and Lutz Bornmann. 2018. ‘Climate and the Decline and Fall of the Western Roman Empire: A Bibliometric View on an Interdisciplinary Approach to Answer a Most Classic Historical Question’. Climate 6 (4): 90. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli6040090.
Maurin, Anna-Sofia. Spring 2023. ‘Tropes’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2023/entries/tropes/
Rondholz, Anke. 2009. ‘Crossing the Rubicon. A Historiographical Study’. Mnemosyne 62 (3): 432–50. https://doi.org/10.1163/156852509X384220.
Rull, Valentí. 2024. ‘The ‘Anthropocene’: alea iacta est: The proposal of the ‘Anthropocene’ as a new geological epoch has been submitted for formalization’. EMBO Rep 2024 (25): 939-943. https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44319-024-00065-1
Silva-Sánchez, Noemí, and Xose-Lois Armada. 2023. ‘Environmental Impact of Roman Mining and Metallurgy and Its Correlation with the Archaeological Evidence: A European Perspective’. Environmental Archaeology, March, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2023.2181295.
Stanton, G. R. 2003. ‘Why Did Caesar Cross the Rubicon?’ Historia: Zeitschrift Für Alte Geschichte 52 (1): 67–94. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4436678
Taylor, Lily Ross. 1957. ‘The Rise of Julius Caesar’. Greece and Rome 4 (1): 10–18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017383500015643.
Tucker, Robert A. 1988. ‘What Actually Happened at the Rubicon?’ Historia: Zeitschrift Für Alte Geschichte 37 (2): 245–48. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4436052
Van Hoorn, Sjoerd. 2021. ‘Everything Flows, or Does It? Heraclitus on Everything’. Antigone Journal. https://antigonejournal.com/2021/11/heraclitus-everything-flows/