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A companion to Julius Caesar

A Companion to Julius Caesar examines the great man and great polarizing figure from a variety of illuminating perspectives: military genius, ruthless tyrant, brilliant politician, first class orator, sophisticated man of letters, and more.
Print Book, English, 2015
Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2015
xix, 512 p. : il. ; 25 cm.
9781119025573, 1119025575
1026070242
List of Figures viii Notes on Contributors x Preface xvi Reference Works: Abbreviated Titles xviii 1 Introduction 1 Part I Biography: Narrative 9 2 From the Iulii to Caesar 11Ernst Badian 3 Caesar as a Politician 23Erich S. Gruen 4 The Proconsular Years: Politics at a Distance 37John T. Ramsey 5 The Dictator 57Jane F. Gardner 6 The Assassination 72Andrew Lintott Part II Biography: Themes 83 7 General and Imperialist 85Nathan Rosenstein 8 Caesar and Religion 100David Wardle 9 Friends, Associates, and Wives 112Catherine Steel 10 Caesar the Man 126Jeremy Paterson 11 Caesar as an Intellectual 141Elaine Fantham Part III Caesar’s Extant Writings 157 12 Bellum Gallicum 159Christina S. Kraus 13 Bellum Civile 175Kurt Raaflaub 14 The Continuators: Soldiering On 192Ronald Cluett Part IV Caesar’s Reputation at Rome 207 15 Caesar’s Political and Military Legacy to the Roman Emperors 209Barbara Levick 16 Augustan and Tiberian Literature 224Mark Toher 17 Neronian Literature: Seneca and Lucan 239Matthew Leigh 18 The First Biographers: Plutarch and Suetonius 252Christopher Pelling 19 The Roman Historians after Livy 267Luke Pitcher 20 The First Emperor: The View of Late Antiquity 277Timothy Barnes 21 The Irritating Statues and Contradictory Portraits of Julius Caesar 288Paul Zanker Part V Caesar’s Place in History 315 22 The Middle Ages 317Almut Suerbaum 23 Empire, Eloquence, and Military Genius: Renaissance Italy 335Martin McLaughlin 24 Some Renaissance Caesars 356Carol Clark 25 Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and the Dramatic Tradition 371Julia Griffin 26 The Enlightenment 399Thomas Biskup 27 Caesar and the Two Napoleons 410Claude Nicolet 28 Republicanism, Caesarism, and Political Change 418Nicholas Cole 29 Caesar for Communists and Fascists 431Luciano Canfora 30 A Twenty-First-Century Caesar 441Maria Wyke Bibliography 456 Index 492