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A companion to Julius Caesar / edited by Miriam Griffin.
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English
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Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
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xix, 512 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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Generals
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Rome
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Biography
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Heads of state
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Rome
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Biography
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Rome
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History
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Republic, 265-30 B.C.
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Caesar, Julius
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Griffin, Miriam T. (Miriam Tamara)
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Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history
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Summary note
Few historical figures, in both the ancient and the modern world, are more recognizable - or more controversial - than Julius Caesar. After ancient Rome was plunged into civil war, Caesar emerged to become the undisputed master of the Roman world. Indeed, his subsequent assassination in 44 BC marked one of the great turning points in world history as Rome made its epoch-making transition from republic to empire.
A Companion to Julius Caesar examines the great man and his image from a variety of perspectives: military genius, brilliant politician, first class orator, sophisticated man of letters, relentless careerist, ruthless conqueror, tactless autocrat. Essays by leading scholars in classics, ancient history and art, modern history, and European literature explore the reputation of Caesar starting with his contemporaries, and show how artists, writers, and poets from antiquity to the present day have depicted Caesar. Lively, engaging, and comprehensive in scope, this Companion is one of the richest and most vivid portraits of Julius Caesar available today - a triumphant addition to literary and historical scholarship. --Book Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [456]-491) and index.
Contents
I. Biography: narrative. From the Iulii to Caesar / Ernst Badian
Caesar as a politician / Erich S. Gruen
The proconsular years: politics at a distance / John T. Ramsey
The dictator / Jane F. Gardner
The assassination / Andrew Lintott
II. Biography: themes. General and imperialist / Nathan Rosenstein
Caesar and religion / David Wardle
Friends, associates, and wives / Catherine Steel
Caesar the man / Jeremy Paterson
Caesar as an intellectual / Elaine Fantham
III. Caesar's extant writings. Bellum Gallicum / Christina S. Kraus
Bellum Civile / Kurt Raaflaub
The continuators: soldiering on / Ronald Cluett
IV. Caesar's reputation at Rome. Caesar's political and military legacy to the Roman emperors / Barbara Levick
Augustan and Tiberian literature / Mark Toher
Neronian literature: Seneca and Lucan / Matthew Leigh
The first biographers: Plutarch and Suetonius / Christopher Pelling
The Roman historians after Livy / Luke Pitcher
The first emperor: the view of late antiquity / Timothy Barnes
The irritating statues and contradictory portraits of Julius Caesar / Paul Zanker
V. Caesar's place in history. The Middle Ages / Almut Suerbaum
Empire, eloquence, and military genius: Renaissance Italy / Martin McLaughlin
Some Renaissance Caesars / Carol Clark
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and the dramatic tradition / Julia Griffin
The Enlightenment / Thomas Biskup
Caesar and the two Napoleons / Claude Nicolet
Republicanism, Caesarism, and political change / Nicholas Cole
Caesar for communists and fascists / Luciano Canfora
A twenty-first-century Caesar / Maria Wyke.
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ISBN
9781405149235 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
140514923X ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2008046983
OCLC
244766873
International Article Number
9781405149235
Other standard number
99945523645
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