03829nam 2200697Ia 450 991014639970332120210209181211.01-78268-599-51-282-11640-197866121164071-4051-8507-41-4443-0844-01-4443-0845-9(CKB)1000000000748269(EBL)437508(OCoLC)429074904(SSID)ssj0000126122(PQKBManifestationID)11139893(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126122(PQKBWorkID)10045240(PQKB)11751966(MiAaPQ)EBC437508(MiAaPQ)EBC4040883(EXLCZ)99100000000074826920081024d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA companion to Julius Caesar[electronic resource] /edited by Miriam GriffinMalden, MA ;Chichester, West Sussex Wiley-Blackwellc20091 online resource (534 p.)Blackwell companions to the ancient worldDescription based upon print version of record.1-119-02557-5 1-4051-4923-X Includes bibliographical references and index.A COMPANION TO JULIUS CAESAR; 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 Caesar's Extant Writings; 12 Bellum Gallicum; 13 Bellum Civile; 14 The Continuators: Soldiering OnPart IV Caesar's Reputation at Rome15 Caesar's 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 Caesar's Place in History; 22 The Middle Ages; 23 Empire, Eloquence, and Military Genius: Renaissance Italy; 24 Some Renaissance Caesars; 25 Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and the Dramatic Tradition26 The Enlightenment27 Caesar and the Two Napoleons; 28 Republicanism, Caesarism, and Political Change; 29 Caesar for Communists and Fascists; 30 A Twenty-First-Century Caesar; Bibliography; IndexA 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 moreUtilizes Caesar's own extant writingsExamines the viewpoints of Caesar's contemporaries and explores Caesar's portrayals by artists and writers through the agesBlackwell companions to the ancient world.GeneralsRomeBiographyHeads of stateRomeBiographyRomeHistoryRepublic, 265-30 B.CElectronic books.GeneralsHeads of state937937.02092937.05092937/.02092Griffin Miriam T(Miriam Tamara)154210MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910146399703321Companion to Julius Caesar1507874UNINA