A companion to Julius Caesar

Preface ; 1. Introduction ; Part I: Biography: narrative. 2. From the Iulii to Caesar / Ernst Badian ; 3. Caesar as a politician / Erich S. Gruen ; 4. The proconsular years: politics at a distance / John T. Ramsey ; 5. The dictator / Jane F. Gardner ; 6. The assassination / Andrew Lintott ; Part II: Biography: Themes. 7. General and imperialist / Nathan Rosenstein ; 8. Caesar and religion / David Wardle ; 9. Friends, associates, and wives / Catherine Steel ; 10. Caesar the man / Jeremy Paterson ; 11. Caesar as an intellectual / Elaine Fantham ; Part III: Caesar's extant writings. 12. Bellum Gallicum / Christina S. Kraus ; 13.Bellum Civile / Kurt Raaflaub ; 14. The continuators: soldiering on / Ronald Cluett ; Part IV: Caesar's reputation at Rome. 15. Caesar's political and military legacy to the Roman emperors / Barbara Levick ; 16. Augustan and Tiberian literature / Mark Toher ; 17. Neronian literature: Seneca and Lucan / Matthew Leigh ; 18. The first biographers: Plutarch and Suetonius / Christopher Pelling ; 19. The Roman historians after Livy / Luke Pitcher ; 20. The first emperor: the view of late antiquity / Timothy Barnes ; 21. The irritating statues and contradictory portraits of Julius Caesar / Paul Zanker ; Part V: Caesar's place in history. 22. The Middle Ages / Almut Suerbaum ; 23. Empire, eloquence, and military genius: Renaissance Italy / Martin McLaughlin ; 24. Some Renaissance Caesars / Carol Clark ; 25. Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and the dramatic tradition / Julia Griffin ; 26. The Enlightenment / Thomas Biskup ; 27. Caesar and the two Napoleons / Claude Nicolet ; 28. Republicanism, Caesarism, and political change / Nicholas Cole ; 29. Caesar for Communists and Fascists / Luciano Canfora ; 30. A twenty-first-century Caesar / Maria Wyke ; General bibliography ; Index