A companion to Julius Caesar / edited by Miriam Griffin.

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Other Authors: Griffin, Miriam T. (Miriam Tamara)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Series:Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Biography: narrative. From the Iulii to Caesar / Ernst Badian
  • Caesar as a politician / Erich S. Gruen
  • The proconsular years: politics at a distance / John T. Ramsey
  • The dictator / Jane F. Gardner
  • The assassination / Andrew Lintott
  • II. Biography: themes. General and imperialist / Nathan Rosenstein
  • Caesar and religion / David Wardle
  • Friends, associates, and wives / Catherine Steel
  • Caesar the man / Jeremy Paterson
  • Caesar as an intellectual / Elaine Fantham
  • III. Caesar's extant writings. Bellum Gallicum / Christina S. Kraus
  • Bellum Civile / Kurt Raaflaub
  • The continuators: soldiering on / Ronald Cluett
  • IV. Caesar's reputation at Rome. Caesar's political and military legacy to the Roman emperors / Barbara Levick
  • Augustan and Tiberian literature / Mark Toher
  • Neronian literature: Seneca and Lucan / Matthew Leigh
  • The first biographers: Plutarch and Suetonius / Christopher Pelling
  • The Roman historians after Livy / Luke Pitcher
  • The first emperor: the view of late antiquity / Timothy Barnes
  • The irritating statues and contradictory portraits of Julius Caesar / Paul Zanker
  • V. Caesar's place in history. The Middle Ages / Almut Suerbaum
  • Empire, eloquence, and military genius: Renaissance Italy / Martin McLaughlin
  • Some Renaissance Caesars / Carol Clark
  • Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and the dramatic tradition / Julia Griffin
  • The Enlightenment / Thomas Biskup
  • Caesar and the two Napoleons / Claude Nicolet
  • Republicanism, Caesarism, and political change / Nicholas Cole
  • Caesar for communists and fascists / Luciano Canfora
  • A twenty-first-century Caesar / Maria Wyke.