César et la géographie de la Gaule.

• Autores: Pierre Moret
• Localización: Geografía y cartografía de la Antigüedad al Renacimiento: estudios en honor de Francesco Prontera / Encarnación Castro Páez (ed. lit.), Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti (ed. lit.), 2020, ISBN 978-84-18254-29-1, págs. 143-182
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • This study offers an analysis of geographic information concerning Gaul in the Bellum Gallicum. Only the fourth part of the cities and peoples named by Caesar are associated with geographic landmarks. Information related to physical features is limited to eastern Gaul, with a density that increases as one approaches the Rhine, a strategic area that became the centre of attention of the Romans after the submission of Gaul. These scattered elements are based on personal observations or reports commissioned by Caesar, not on pre-existing geographic knowledge. The description in paragraphs 5-7 of the prologue of Book I is of a different nature. This simplified picture based on cartographic knowledge, centred on ethnic spaces and structured by orientations, adapts the tripartite scheme of a Greek geographer on whom Strabo (IV 1, 1) is also dependent. Its faulty insertion into the prologue, as well as contradictions with the information contained in the description of Britain in Book V, raise questions about the role of Caesar in the addition of these geographic excursus, but the hypothesis of a late interpolation is not retained.