A Companion to Julius Caesar

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Miriam Griffin
John Wiley & Sons, 11 mei 2009 - 544 pagina's
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
 

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Narrative 9
11
Caesar as a Politician
23
Politics at a Distance
37
The Dictator
57
The Assassination
72
General and Imperialist
85
Caesar and Religion
100
Caesar the Man
126
Seneca and Lucan
239
Plutarch and Suetonius
252
The Roman Historians after Livy
267
The View of Late Antiquity
277
The Irritating Statues and Contradictory Portraits
288
The Middle Ages
317
Renaissance Italy
335
Some Renaissance Caesars
356

Caesar as an Intellectual
141
Bellum Gallicum
159
Bellum Civile
175
Soldiering On
192
Caesars Political and Military Legacy to
209
Augustan and Tiberian Literature
224
The Enlightenment
399
Republicanism Caesarism and Political Change
418
Caesar for Communists and Fascists
431
Bibliography
456
Index
492
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Over de auteur (2009)

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.

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