Guide

Miriam Griffin (éd.), A Companion to Julius Caesar, Hoboken, 2009.
Éditeur : Wiley
Collection : Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
536 pages
ISBN : 978-1-4051-4923-5
£95.00 / €114.00

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 .

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Preface

Reference Works: Abbreviated Titles

1. Introduction

Part I: Biography: Narrative:

2. From the Iulii to Caesar: Ernst Badian (University of Oxford)

3. Caesar as a Politician: Erich S. Gruen (University of California,
Berkeley)

4. The Proconsular Years: Politics at a Distance: John T. Ramsey (University of Illinois at Chicago)

5. The Dictator: Jane F. Gardner (University of Reading)

6. The Assassination: Andrew Lintott (University of Oxford, retired)

Part II: Biography: Themes:

7. General and Imperialist: Nathan Rosenstein (Ohio State University)

8. Caesar and Religion: David Wardle (University of Cape Town)

9. Friends, Associates, and Wives: Catherine Steel (University of Glasgow)

10. Caesar the Man: Jeremy Paterson (University of Newcastle)

11. Caesar as an Intellectual: Elaine Fantham (Princeton University)

Part III: Caesar’s Extant Writings:

12. Bellum Gallicum: Christina S. Kraus (Yale)

13.Bellum Civile: Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University)

14. The Continuators: Soldiering On: Ronald Cluett (Georgetown University)

Part IV: Caesar’s Reputation at Rome:

15. Caesar’s Political and Military Legacy to the Roman Emperors: Barbara Levick (University of Oxford)

16. Augustan and Tiberian Literature: Mark Toher (Union College in Schenectady, New York)

17. Neronian Literature: Seneca and Lucan: Matthew Leigh (University of Oxford)

18. The First Biographers: Plutarch and Suetonius: Christopher Pelling (University of Oxford)

19. The Roman Historians after Livy: Luke Pitcher (University of Durham)

20. The First Emperor: The View of Late Antiquity: Timothy Barnes (University of Edinburgh)

21. The Irritating Statues and Contradictory Portraits of Julius Caesar: Paul Zankern (Professor Emeritus, University of Munich)

Part V: Caesar’s Place in History:

22. The Middle Ages: Almut Suerbaum (University of Oxford)

23. Empire, Eloquence, and Military Genius: Renaissance Italy: Martin McLaughlin (University of Oxford)

24. Some Renaissance Caesars: Carol Clark (University of Oxford)

25. Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and the Dramatic Tradition: Julia Griffin (Georgia Southern University)

26. The Enlightenment: Thomas Biskup (University of Hull)

27. Caesar and the Two Napoleons: Claude Nicolet (University of Paris, retired)

28. Republicanism, Caesarism, and Political Change: Nicholas Cole (University of Oxford)

29. Caesar for Communists and Fascists: Luciano Canfora (University of Bari)

30. A Twenty-First-Century Caesar: Maria Wyke (University College London)

General Bibliography

Index