A Companion to Julius Caesar E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Sprache: Englisch

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

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

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Cover

Author

BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD

Title

Copyright

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Preface

Reference Works: Abbreviated Titles

CHAPTER ONE: Introduction

The Scheme of the Volume

The Contemporary Impression and its Preservation

Enduring Problems in Fathoming Caesar

The Historical Significance of Caesar

The Great Man in History

PART I: Biography: Narrative

CHAPTER TWO: From the Iulii to Caesar

CHAPTER THREE: Caesar as a Politician

CHAPTER FOUR: The Proconsular Years: Politics at a Distance

Coalition of Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus Put to the Test (58, 57 BC)

Coalition Renewed (56, 55 BC)

Coalition under Pressure (54, 53, 52 BC)

Coalition Dissolves (51, 50 BC)

CHAPTER FIVE: The Dictator

Caesar’s Legislation

Plans for the Future

CHAPTER SIX: The Assassination

PART II: Biography: Themes

CHAPTER SEVEN: General and Imperialist

The Evidence

Becoming a General

Empire Builder

Strategist

Tactician

Conclusion

CHAPTER EIGHT: Caesar and Religion

Religious Offices and Actions in Caesar’s Career

Caesar and Ruler Cult

Caesar and the Observance of Religious Practices

Religion in Caesar’s Own Works

Ancient Sources’ Picture of Caesar and Religious Observance

Conclusion

CHAPTER NINE: Friends, Associates, and Wives

CHAPTER TEN: Caesar the Man

Appearance

Health

Food and Drink

Caesar and Sex

Extravagance, Expenditure, and Connoisseurship

Character

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Caesar as an Intellectual

Caesar’s Education

Caesar as an Orator

Caesar as a Theorist of Language

Ethnography

Caesar’s Calendar

Epilogue

PART III: Caesar's Extant Writings

CHAPTER TWELVE:

Bellum Gallicum

Form, Voice, and Style

War Narratives

CHAPTER THIRTEEN:

Bellum Civile

The Civil War

The

Bellum Civile

Ancient Comments

The Genre of the

Commentarius

and Caesar’s

Commentarii

Composition and Publication of the

BC

The Text and Manuscript Tradition, Modern Editions

Style and Narrative

Tendentiousness and Reliability

Portraits of Personalities

Political Strategy

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Continuators: Soldiering On

The Pseudo-Caesars

The Discontinuators

Following Caesar: Continuators after All

Civil War, Province, and Empire

PART IV: Caesar's Reputation at Rome

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Caesar’s Political and Military Legacy to the Roman Emperors

Caesar and his Acts

The Name of Caesar

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Augustan and Tiberian Literature

Triumviral Era

Principate of Augustus

Principate of Tiberius

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Neronian Literature: Seneca and Lucan

Introduction

History to Epic: Swift-footed Caesar

History to Epic: Caesar and his Subalterns

History to Epic: Caesar and the Gods

Moral Judgments and the Problem of Clemency

Conclusion

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The First Biographers: Plutarch and Suetonius

CHAPTER NINETEEN: The Roman Historians after Livy

CHAPTER TWENTY: The First Emperor: The View of Late Antiquity

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: The Irritating Statues and Contradictory Portraits of Julius Caesar

The Ambitious Statues of the Dictator: Aims and Effects

The Many Faces of Caesar

PART V: Caesar's Place in History

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: The Middle Ages

Introduction

Concepts of Authorship: Manuscript Transmission and Commentary Tradition

Medieval Historiography: Caesar the Politician and General

Vernacular Literature

Caesar in Early Modern Germany

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Empire, Eloquence, and Military Genius: Renaissance Italy

The Trecento: Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Salutati

The Quattrocento: Bruni and Poggio

From Poliziano to Machiavelli

Humanist enthusiasm for Caesar the author

Italian editions of Caesar

Italian vernacular translations of Caesar

Conclusion

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Some Renaissance Caesars

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Shakespeare’s

Julius Caesar

and the Dramatic Tradition

Caesar and Catiline

Caesar in the Civil War: Pompey, Cleopatra, and Cato

The Death of Julius Caesar

Conclusion

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: The Enlightenment

Caesar in Old Regime Political Culture

Caesar as a Republican Anti-model

Caesar in Enlightenment France

Caesar in the Holy Roman Empire

Caesar in Enlightenment Historiography

Conclusion: Caesar, Frederick, and Napoleon

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Caesar and the Two Napoleons

The Appearance of Caesarism

Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Republicanism, Caesarism, and Political Change

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Caesar for Communists and Fascists

CHAPTER THIRTY: A Twenty-First-Century Caesar

The Coming Caesars

In Praise of Imperialism

Twenty-First-Century Caesar

Across the Rubicon

Bibliography

Index

End User License Agreement

Guide

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Portrait of Caesar, Turin, Museo Archeologico. Photo Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rome.

BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD

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A Companion to Greek ReligionEdited by Daniel Ogden

A Companion to the Classical TraditionEdited by Craig W. Kallendorf

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A Companion to Ancient EpicEdited by John Miles Foley

A Companion to Greek TragedyEdited by Justina Gregory

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A Companion to OvidEdited by Peter E. Knox

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A COMPANION TO JULIUS CAESAR

Miriam Griffin

This edition first published 2009

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A companion to Julius Caesar/edited by Miriam Griffin.

p. cm. – (Blackwell companions to the ancient world)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-4923-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Caesar, Julius. 2. Generals–Rome–Biography.

3. Heads of state–Rome–Biography. 4. Rome–History–Republic, 265–30 B.C. I. Griffin, Miriam

T. (Miriam Tamara)

DG261.C76 2009

937’.02092–dc22

[B]

2008046983

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01 2009

Notes on Contributors

Ernst Badian, FBA, John Moors Cabot Professor of History, Emeritus, Harvard, was born in Vienna and educated in New Zealand and at University College, Oxford. He was a Professor at Leeds and at Buffalo, before his appointment to Harvard (1971–98). His publications include Foreign Clientelae (264–70BC), 1958; Studies in Greek and Roman History, 1964; Roman Imperialism in the Late Republic, 1967 (revised and enlarged as Römischer Imperialismus in der Späten Republik, 1980); Publicans and Sinners, 1972 (translated into German and augmented as Zöllner und Sünder, 1997); From Plataea to Potidaea, 1993; and numerous contributions to the Oxford Classical Dictionary and to journals.

Timothy Barnes was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and held a Junior Research Fellowship at the Queen’s College. He taught in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto from 1970 to 2007, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1985. He won the Conington Prize at Oxford for his first book, Tertullian: A Historical and Literary Study (1971) (2nd edition, with postscript, 1985). His major publications since then have been The Sources of the Historia Augusta (1978), Constantine and Eusebius (1981), The New Empire of Diocletian and Constantine (1982), Athanasius and Constantius: Theology and Politics in the Constantinian Empire (1993) and Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality (1998). He now lives in Edinburgh and is attached to the University of Edinburgh.