4 The Proconsular Years: Politics at a Distance 37 John T. Ramsey
5 The Dictator 57 Jane F. Gardner
6 The Assassination 72 Andrew Lintott
Part II Biography: Themes 83
7 General and Imperialist 85 Nathan Rosenstein
8 Caesar and Religion 100 David Wardle
9 Friends, Associates, and Wives 112 Catherine Steel
10 Caesar the Man 126 Jeremy Paterson
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 Kurt Raaflaub
14 The Continuators: Soldiering On 192 Ronald Cluett
Part IV Caesar's Reputation at Rome 207
15 Caesar's Political and Military Legacy to the Roman Emperors 209 Barbara Levick
16 Augustan and Tiberian Literature 224 Mark Toher
17 Neronian Literature: Seneca and Lucan 239 Matthew Leigh
18 The First Biographers: Plutarch and Suetonius 252 Christopher Pelling
19 The Roman Historians after Livy 267 Luke Pitcher
20 The First Emperor: The View of Late Antiquity 277 Timothy Barnes
21 The Irritating Statues and Contradictory Portraits of Julius Caesar 288 Paul Zanker
Part V Caesar's Place in History 315
22 The Middle Ages 317 Almut Suerbaum
23 Empire, Eloquence, and Military Genius: Renaissance Italy 335 Martin McLaughlin
24 Some Renaissance Caesars 356 Carol Clark
25 Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and the Dramatic Tradition 371 Julia Griffin
26 The Enlightenment 399 Thomas Biskup
27 Caesar and the Two Napoleons 410 Claude Nicolet
28 Republicanism, Caesarism, and Political Change 418 Nicholas Cole
29 Caesar for Communists and Fascists 431 Luciano Canfora
30 A Twenty-First-Century Caesar 441 Maria Wyke
Bibliography 456
Index 492
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
Miriam Griffin is Emeritus Fellow of Classics at Oxford University. She is the author of numerous books and articles on Roman history and philosophy, including Nero (1987), Seneca: A Philosopher in Politics (1992), and Philosophia togata I & II (with Jonathan Barnes, 1991 & 1997). She was until recently editor of the Classical Quarterly.
"Those seeking answers to [Caesar's] place in the world as hero or villain will not find the answer in these pages. Instead, they will find this book adds illumination toward that decision, which must be made by the reader, not the writers. It is precisely this rational impartiality that makes A Companion to Julius Caesar an aid to study, and a good one at that ... Enlightening." UNRV History (1 September 2015)
