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A companion to Julius Caesar / edited by Miriam Griffin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to the ancient world.
- Blackwell companions to the ancient world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caesar, Julius.
- Generals--Rome--Biography.
- Generals.
- Heads of state--Rome--Biography.
- Heads of state.
- Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C.
- Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (534 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA ; Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 moreUtilizes Caesar's own extant writingsExamines the viewpoints of Caesar's contemporaries and explores Caesar's portrayals by artists and writers through the ages
- Contents:
- A COMPANION TO JULIUS CAESAR; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Reference Works: Abbreviated Titles; 1 Introduction; Part I Biography: Narrative; 2 From the Iulii to Caesar; 3 Caesar as a Politician; 4 The Proconsular Years: Politics at a Distance; 5 The Dictator; 6 The Assassination; Part II Biography: Themes; 7 General and Imperialist; 8 Caesar and Religion; 9 Friends, Associates, and Wives; 10 Caesar the Man; 11 Caesar as an Intellectual; Part III Caesar's Extant Writings; 12 Bellum Gallicum; 13 Bellum Civile; 14 The Continuators: Soldiering On
- Part IV Caesar's Reputation at Rome15 Caesar's Political and Military Legacy to the Roman Emperors; 16 Augustan and Tiberian Literature; 17 Neronian Literature: Seneca and Lucan; 18 The First Biographers: Plutarch and Suetonius; 19 The Roman Historians after Livy; 20 The First Emperor: The View of Late Antiquity; 21 The Irritating Statues and Contradictory Portraits of Julius Caesar; Part V Caesar's Place in History; 22 The Middle Ages; 23 Empire, Eloquence, and Military Genius: Renaissance Italy; 24 Some Renaissance Caesars; 25 Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and the Dramatic Tradition
- 26 The Enlightenment27 Caesar and the Two Napoleons; 28 Republicanism, Caesarism, and Political Change; 29 Caesar for Communists and Fascists; 30 A Twenty-First-Century Caesar; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612116407
- 9781782685999
- 1782685995
- 9781282116405
- 1282116401
- 9781405185073
- 1405185074
- 9781444308440
- 1444308440
- 9781444308457
- 1444308459
- OCLC:
- 429074904
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