A Companion to Julius Caesar

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by  Caesar, Julius, Griffin, Miriam Tamara

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A COMPANION TO
JULIUS CAESAR
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A COMPANION TO
JULIUS CAESAR
Edited by
Miriam Griffin
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Contents
List of Figures viii
Notes on Contributors x
Preface xvi
Reference Works: Abbreviated Titles xviii
1 Introduction 1
Part I Biography: Narrative 9
2 From the Iulii toCaesar 11
ErnstBadian
3 Caesar as a Politician 23
Erich S. Gruen
4 The Proconsular Years:Politics ata Distance 37
JohnT.Ramsey
5 The Dictator 57
Jane F.Gardner
6 The Assassination 72
AndrewLintott
Part II Biography: Themes 83
7 General andImperialist 85
Nathan Rosenstein
8 Caesar and Religion 100
David Wardle
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vi Contents
9 Friends, Associates, and Wives 112
Catherine Steel
10 Caesar the Man 126
JeremyPaterson
11 Caesar as an Intellectual 141
Elaine Fantham
Part III Caesar’s Extant Writings 157
12 Bellum Gallicum 159
Christina S. Kraus
13 Bellum Civile 175
KurtRaaflaub
14 TheContinuators:SoldieringOn 192
Ronald Cluett
Part IV Caesar’s Reputation at Rome 207
15 Caesar’s Political and MilitaryLegacy to the
Roman Emperors 209
Barbara Levick
16 Augustan and TiberianLiterature 224
Mark Toher
17 NeronianLiterature: Senecaand Lucan 239
Matthew Leigh
18 TheFirst Biographers:Plutarch and Suetonius 252
Christopher Pelling
19 TheRoman Historiansafter Livy 267
Luke Pitcher
20 TheFirst Emperor: TheView of LateAntiquity 277
TimothyBarnes
21 TheIrritating Statues andContradictoryPortraits
of Julius Caesar 288
PaulZanker
Part V Caesar’s Place in History 315
22 TheMiddleAges 317
Almut Suerbaum
23 Empire,Eloquence,andMilitaryGenius:RenaissanceItaly 335
Martin McLaughlin
24 Some Renaissance Caesars 356
Carol Clark
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Contents vii
25 Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and the Dramatic Tradition 371
Julia Griffin
26 The Enlightenment 399
ThomasBiskup
27 Caesar and the Two Napoleons 410
Claude Nicolet
28 Republicanism, Caesarism,and Political Change 418
NicholasCole
29 Caesar for Communists andFascists 431
Luciano Canfora
30 ATwenty-First-Century Caesar 441
Maria Wyke
Bibliography 456
Index 492
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List of Figures
2.1 Denarius of Sex. IuliusCaesar, 129BC, alluding tothe descent
ofthe Iuliifrom Venus 12
6.1 Denarius of Brutus IMP.,43–42BC 73
6.2 Aureus of Octavian, 36BC ¼21.3 81
10.1 Denarius, 44BC 127
12.1 DeBello Gallico 1.1.1 163
15.1 Sestertius, c.36 BC¼ 21.4 211
21.1 Denarius with statue ofOctavian, 31BC or earlier 290
21.2 Denarius of M. Mettius, 44 BC 295
21.3 Aureus of Octavian, 36BC ¼6.2 298
21.4 Sestertius, c.36 BC¼ 15.1 299
21.5 Denarius of M. Sanguinius, Rome17 BC 300
21.6 Denarius of L. Lentulus, 12BC 300
21.7–8 Portrait of Caesar,Turin, Museo Archeologico 302
21.9 Portrait of Caesar,Woburn Abbey 302
21.10 Portrait of Caesar,Pantelleria 303
21.11 Portrait of Pompeius, Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 304
21.12 Portrait of M. Crassus, Paris Louvre 305
21.13 Portrait of Calpurnius Piso Pontifex,Naples, Museo
Archeologico Nazionale 306
21.14 Portrait bust,Berlin, Staatliche MuseenAntikensammlung 307
21.15 Portrait of Caesar,Pisa,Museo del Primaziale 309
21.16 Portrait of Caesar,Musei Vaticani 310
21.17 Statue of Caesar,Rome Palazzo Senatorio 312
21.18 Portrait of Caesar,Naples, Museo ArcheologicoNazionale 313
23.1 Julius Caesar founding Florence (detail) 337
23.2 Caesar the military leader atthe opening of De Bello Gallico 346