Text and event · 文本与事件

scholarly-interpretation

Riggsby distinguishes evidence for Caesar’s surviving text from evidence for the war it describes, and treats comparison with other discourse as a way to study textual meaning.

Evidence limit: Different witnesses need not be independent. Comparing passages does not establish that their events, dates or arguments are equivalent.

Andrew M. Riggsby, Caesar in Gaul and Rome: War in Words (2006), pp. 1–2. Publisher record