A Companion to Julius Caesar

Copyright © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Julius Caesar

Editor(s): Miriam Griffin

Published Online: 5 MAY 2009

Print ISBN: 9781405149235

Online ISBN: 9781444308440

DOI: 10.1002/9781444308440

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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 more
  • Utilizes Caesar's own extant writings
  • Examines the viewpoints of Caesar's contemporaries and explores Caesar's portrayals by artists and writers through the ages

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xix)

    1. Chapter One

      Introduction (pages 1–8)

      Miriam Griffin

  3. Part I: Biography: Narrative

    1. Chapter Two

      From the Iulii to Caesar (pages 9–22)

      Ernst Badian

    2. Chapter Three

      Caesar as a Politician (pages 23–36)

      Erich S. Gruen

    3. Chapter Four

      The Proconsular Years: Politics at a Distance (pages 37–56)

      John T. Ramsey

    4. Chapter Five

      The Dictator (pages 57–71)

      Jane F. Gardner

    5. Chapter Six

      The Assassination (pages 72–82)

      Andrew Lintott

  4. Part II: Biography: Themes

    1. Chapter Seven

      General and Imperialist (pages 83–99)

      Nathan Rosenstein

    2. Chapter Eight

      Caesar and Religion (pages 100–111)

      David Wardle

    3. Chapter Nine

      Friends, Associates, and Wives (pages 112–125)

      Catherine Steel

    4. Chapter Ten

      Caesar the Man (pages 126–140)

      Jeremy Paterson

    5. Chapter Eleven

      Caesar as an Intellectual (pages 141–156)

      Elaine Fantham

  5. Part III: Caesar's Extant Writings

    1. Chapter Twelve

      Bellum Gallicum (pages 157–174)

      Christina S. Kraus

    2. Chapter Thirteen

      Bellum Civile (pages 175–191)

      Kurt Raaflaub

    3. Chapter Fourteen

      The Continuators: Soldiering On (pages 192–205)

      Ronald Cluett

  6. Part IV: Caesar's Reputation at Rome

    1. Chapter Fifteen

      Caesar's Political and Military Legacy to the Roman Emperors (pages 207–223)

      Barbara Levick

    2. Chapter Sixteen

      Augustan and Tiberian Literature (pages 224–238)

      Mark Toher

    3. Chapter Seventeen

      Neronian Literature: Seneca and Lucan (pages 239–251)

      Matthew Leigh

    4. Chapter Eighteen

      The First Biographers: Plutarch and Suetonius (pages 252–266)

      Christopher Pelling

    5. Chapter nineteen

      The Roman Historians after Livy (pages 267–276)

      Luke Pitcher

    6. Chapter Twenty

      The First Emperor: The View of Late Antiquity (pages 277–287)

      Timothy Barnes

    7. Chapter Twenty-One

      The Irritating Statues and Contradictory Portraits of Julius Caesar (pages 288–314)

      Paul Zanker

  7. Part V: Caesar's Place in History

    1. Chapter Twenty-Two

      The Middle Ages (pages 315–334)

      Almut Suerbaum

    2. Chapter Twenty-Three

      Empire, Eloquence, and Military Genius: Renaissance Italy (pages 335–355)

      Martin McLaughlin

    3. Chapter Twenty-Four

      Some Renaissance Caesars (pages 356–370)

      Carol Clark

    4. Chapter Twenty-Five

      Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and the Dramatic Tradition (pages 371–398)

      Julia Griffin

    5. Chapter Twenty-Six

      The Enlightenment (pages 399–409)

      Thomas Biskup

    6. Chapter Twenty-Seven

      Caesar and the Two Napoleons (pages 410–417)

      Claude Nicolet

    7. Chapter Twenty-Eight

      Republicanism, Caesarism, and Political Change (pages 418–430)

      Nicholas Cole

    8. Chapter Twenty-Nine

      Caesar for Communists and Fascists (pages 431–440)

      Luciano Canfora

    9. Chapter Thirty

      A Twenty-First-Century Caesar (pages 441–455)

      Maria Wyke

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      Bibliography (pages 456–491)

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      Index (pages 492–512)

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