A companion to Julius Caesar /
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| Imprint: | Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. |
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| Description: | xix, 512 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7730199 |
Table of 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. CaesarÆs Extant Writings
- 12. Bellum Gallicum
- 13. Bellum Civile
- 14. The Continuators: Soldiering On
- Part IV. CaesarÆs Reputation at Rome
- 15. CaesarÆs 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. CaesarÆs Place in History
- 22. The Middle Ages
- 23. Empire, Eloquence, and Military Genius: Renaissance Italy
- 24. Some Renaissance Caesars
- 25. ShakespeareÆs Julius Caesar and the Dramatic Tradition
- 26. The Enlightenment
- 27. Caesar and the Two Napoleons
- 28. Republicanism, Caesarism, and Political Change
- 29. Caesar for Communists and Fascists
- 30. A Twenty-First-Century Caesar
- General Bibliography
- Index
