A Companion to Julius Caesar. ([2015?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Miriam Griffin.
• Editors: Griffin, Miriam T (Miriam Tamara)
• Contents: 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 11; Ernst Badian 3 Caesar as a Politician 23; Erich S. Gruen 4 The Proconsular Years: Politics at a Distance 37; John T. Ramsey 5 The Dictator 57; Jane F. Gardner 6 The Assassination 72; Andrew Lintott Part II Biography: Themes 83 7 General and Imperialist 85; Nathan Rosenstein 8 Caesar and Religion 100; David Wardle 9 Friends, Associates, and Wives 112; Catherine Steel 10 Caesar the Man 126; Jeremy Paterson 11 Caesar as an Intellectual 141; Elaine Fantham Part III Caesar’s Extant Writings 157 12 Bellum Gallicum 159; Christina S. Kraus 13 Bellum Civile 175; Kurt Raaflaub 14 The Continuators: Soldiering On 192; Ronald Cluett Part IV Caesar’s Reputation at Rome 207 15 Caesar’s Political and Military Legacy to the Roman Emperors 209; Barbara Levick 16 Augustan and Tiberian Literature 224; Mark Toher 17 Neronian Literature: Seneca and Lucan 239; Matthew Leigh 18 The First Biographers: Plutarch and Suetonius 252; Christopher Pelling 19 The Roman Historians after Livy 267; Luke Pitcher 20 The First Emperor: The View of Late Antiquity 277; Timothy Barnes 21 The Irritating Statues and Contradictory Portraits of Julius Caesar 288; Paul Zanker Part V Caesar’s Place in History 315 22 The Middle Ages 317; Almut Suerbaum 23 Empire, Eloquence, and Military Genius: Renaissance Italy 335; Martin McLaughlin 24 Some Renaissance Caesars 356; Carol Clark 25 Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and the Dramatic Tradition 371; Julia Griffin 26 The Enlightenment 399; Thomas Biskup 27 Caesar and the Two Napoleons 410; Claude Nicolet 28 Republicanism, Caesarism, and Political Change 418; Nicholas Cole 29 Caesar for Communists and Fascists 431; Luciano Canfora 30 A Twenty-First-Century Caesar 441; Maria Wyke Bibliography 456 Index 492
• Publisher Details: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 937.02092; Generals -- Rome -- Biography; Heads of state -- Rome -- Biography; Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119062356
• Related ISBNs: 9781119025573; 9781405149235
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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