Gallic warGaius Julius Caesar
Gallic war
by Gaius Julius Caesar · first published 1895
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For more "generalship as management," you can read another classic, Caesar's Gallic War. One caveat: a lot of modern Classics scholarship would rather take this less as an example of great generalship and more as an example of great propaganda. But either way it's a treatise on how to command,…
on “Bad Indian Programmers” ↗I've read Caesar's Gallic War (Commentarii de Bello Gallico) and Civil War (Commentarii de Bello Civili) probably ~300 times but I don't have an exact count. They're relatively short texts. I've re-read them non-stop for ~20 years…
on “Ask HN: Which book have you re-read the most times? how many times?” ↗Not only that but sometimes the works that have been preserved the best are obvious political tools. E.g. Julius Cesar's "The Gallic war". Which, since we are on the topic, I absolutely must suggest as a reading for anyone who has the slightest interest in historical fact - or fiction - for that matter. Yes, the work is political boast…
on “Remains of Alexander the Great's Father Confirmed Found” ↗To be fair, Cesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War is masterclass writing and well worth the read. The way that he writes to three audiences at once is superb and the lessons he tries to impart are solid gold. It's a very rare and very useful look into…
on “Everything I know about elite America I learned from Fresh Prince and West Wing” ↗It is interesting to read that so little has changed since the days of Caesar. Reading his Gallic War you'd think the war was won by digging ditches and building walls. For instance, search for "fortification" on this page: http://classics.mit.edu/Caesar/gallic.5.5.html Contrast with Galba in the early…
on “The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Concrete” ↗…languages and these translations we use to train our translation system. Since this system translates books well similar to those from whom he learned, our ability to translate famous books (such as The Gallic War Caesar 's) is already good. The next time you find a Latin passage or you need help with the Latin writings, try this. Jakob Uszkoreit, Software Engineer
on “Google Translate now supports Latin” ↗…Catholic schools in the US are private institutions, and one that would teach Latin with vigor is a rare case. However: > we were required to read history texts written in Latin. It is common for Caesar’s Gallic War to be assigned early on, but students working through it with the support of a tailor-made glossary and commentary is not a particularly impressive achievement. De bello gallico (like Xenophon’s Anabasis…
on “Finland’s weekly news show in Latin cancelled after run of 30 years” ↗I checked out the page on Caesar's The Gallic War and looked at its famous opening line "Gallia est omnis diuisa in partes tres , quarum unam incolunt Belgae , aliam Aquitani , tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae , nostra Galli appellantur". Apart from…
on “Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it” ↗…languages and these translations we use to train our translation system. Since this system translates books well similar to those from whom he learned, our ability to translate famous books (such as The Gallic War Caesar 's) is already good. The next time you find a Latin passage or you need help with the Latin writings, try this. Jakob Uszkoreit, Software Engineer
on “Veni, Vidi, Verba Verti” ↗…any sense of how long these works are? While I have no clue on these specific works, I tend to use things like books of the Bible as a benchmark. Other works have similar length "books," like Caesar's "Gallic War" is split into 8 books of 5000 to 15000 words each or Aristotle wrote 400 books of about a thousand lines each. Maybe some are significantly longer, but I'd assume the majority are that length. Keeping…
on “Could the greatest works of literature be undiscovered?” ↗…that's all I'm interested in. I'm only learning Latin to read ancient Latin literature. I don't want to compose or translate Latin. An example of feedback for me, would be to read a page of Caesar's The Gallic War in Latin then read the same page in English afterwards to see how close I was to understanding everything. So far I've been close on almost everything, so the feedback I'm getting is that I'm reading…
on “Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata” ↗…that the moral and ethical standards for the upper echelons of Roman society was very different than today's western standards. Different traits were championed. For example, "De Bello Gallico" (On the Gallic War,) is not a neutral historical account; it was written by Caesar for a Roman audience and aimed to defend and promote his actions. His conquest of Gaul would amount to genocide in a modern context but…
on “Square where Julius Caesar was killed opens to the public in Rome” ↗…expressing confusion, but being informed by the professor that said style was more common historically. The Wikipedia citation for 9 is Commentarii de bello Gallico (Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War), which interestingly comes from around the same timeframe (first century BC, toward the end of the Roman Republic).
on “On clock faces, 4 is Expressed as IIII, not IV” ↗…copyright. It is a creative process after all. This means a book can be in public domain for the original text, because it's very old, but not the translation because it's newer. For example Julius Caesar's "Gallic War" in the original latin is clearly not subject to copyright, but a recent English translation will be.
on “AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model” ↗…F.F. Bruce provides another: "Perhaps we can appreciate how wealthy the New Testament is in manuscript attestation if we compare the textual material for other ancient historical works. For Caesar's Gallic War (composed between 58 and 50 BC), there are several extant MSS, but only nine or ten are good, and the oldest is some 900 years later than Caesar's day. Of the 142 books of the Roman History of Livy (59…
on “Dawkins' Stupid People” ↗