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9781405149235

A Companion to Julius Caesar

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    9781405149235

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    140514923X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-05-11
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

A Companion to Julius Caesar comprises 30 essays from leading scholars examining the life and after life of this great polarizing figure. Explores Caesar from a variety of perspectives: military genius, ruthless tyrant, brilliant politician, first class orator, sophisticated man of letters, and more Utilizes Caesar's own extant writings Examines the viewpoints of Caesar's contemporaries and explores Caesar's portrayals by artists and writers through the ages

Author Biography

Miriam Griffin is Emeritus Fellow of Classics at Oxford University. She is the author of numerous books and articles on Roman history and philosophy, including Nero (1987), Seneca: A Philosopher in Politics (1992), and Philosophia togata I & II (with Jonathan Barnes, 1991 & 1997). She was until recently editor of the Classical Quarterly.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Reference Works: Abbreviated Titles
Introduction
Biography: Narrative
From the Iulii to Caesar
Caesar as a Politician
The Proconsular Years: Politics at a Distance
The Dictator
The Assassination
Biography: Themes
General and Imperialist
Caesar and Religion
Friends, Associates, and Wives
Caesar the Man
Caesar as an Intellectual
CaesarÆs Extant Writings
Bellum Gallicum
Bellum Civile
The Continuators: Soldiering On
CaesarÆs Reputation at Rome
CaesarÆs Political and Military Legacy to the Roman Emperors
Augustan and Tiberian Literature
Neronian Literature: Seneca and Lucan
The First Biographers: Plutarch and Suetonius
The Roman Historians after Livy
The First Emperor: The View of Late Antiquity
The Irritating Statues and Contradictory Portraits of Julius Caesar
CaesarÆs Place in History
The Middle Ages
Empire, Eloquence, and Military Genius: Renaissance Italy
Some Renaissance Caesars
ShakespeareÆs Julius Caesar and the Dramatic Tradition
The Enlightenment
Caesar and the Two Napoleons
Republicanism, Caesarism, and Political Change
Caesar for Communists and Fascists
A Twenty-First-Century Caesar
General Bibliography
Index
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