Title: A companion to Julius Caesar /
Authors: Griffin, Miriam T.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Caesar, Julius; Generals Rome Biography; Heads of state Rome Biography.; Rome History; Rome History
Abstract: Few historical figures, in both the ancient and the modern world, are more recognizable - or more controversial - than Julius Caesar. After ancient Rome was plunged into civil war, Caesar emerged to become the undisputed master of the Roman world. Indeed, his subsequent assassination in 44 BC marked one of the great turning points in world history as Rome made its epoch-making transition from republic to empire.
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.