Table of 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 to Caesar 11Ernst Badian
3 Caesar as a Politician 23Erich S. Gruen
4 The Proconsular Years: Politics at a Distance 37John T. Ramsey
5 The Dictator 57Jane F. Gardner
6 The Assassination 72Andrew Lintott
Part II Biography: Themes 83
7 General and Imperialist 85Nathan Rosenstein
8 Caesar and Religion 100David Wardle
9 Friends, Associates, and Wives 112Catherine Steel
10 Caesar the Man 126Jeremy Paterson
11 Caesar as an Intellectual 141Elaine Fantham
Part III Caesar’s Extant Writings 157
12 Bellum Gallicum 159Christina S. Kraus
13 Bellum Civile 175Kurt Raaflaub
14 The Continuators: Soldiering On 192Ronald Cluett
Part IV Caesar’s Reputation at Rome 207
15 Caesar’s Political and Military Legacy to the Roman Emperors 209Barbara Levick
16 Augustan and Tiberian Literature 224Mark Toher
17 Neronian Literature: Seneca and Lucan 239Matthew Leigh
18 The First Biographers: Plutarch and Suetonius 252Christopher Pelling
19 The Roman Historians after Livy 267Luke Pitcher
20 The First Emperor: The View of Late Antiquity 277Timothy Barnes
21 The Irritating Statues and Contradictory Portraits of Julius Caesar 288Paul Zanker
Part V Caesar’s Place in History 315
22 The Middle Ages 317Almut Suerbaum
23 Empire, Eloquence, and Military Genius: Renaissance Italy 335Martin McLaughlin
24 Some Renaissance Caesars 356Carol Clark
25 Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and the Dramatic Tradition 371Julia Griffin
26 The Enlightenment 399Thomas Biskup
27 Caesar and the Two Napoleons 410Claude Nicolet
28 Republicanism, Caesarism, and Political Change 418Nicholas Cole
29 Caesar for Communists and Fascists 431Luciano Canfora
30 A Twenty-First-Century Caesar 441Maria Wyke
Bibliography 456
Index 492