Caesar Julius - A Companion to Julius Caesar

1. CHAPTER TWO: From the Iulii to Caesar
2. CHAPTER SIX: The Assassination
3. CHAPTER TEN: Caesar the Man
4. CHAPTER TWELVE: Bellum Gallicum
5. CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Caesars Political and Military Legacy to the Roman Emperors
6. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: The Irritating Statues and Contradictory Portraits of Julius Caesar
7. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Empire, Eloquence, and Military Genius: Renaissance Italy
8. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Some Renaissance Caesars
9. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Caesar and the Two Napoleons
10. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Republicanism, Caesarism, and Political Change
11. CHAPTER THIRTY: A Twenty-First-Century Caesar

Miriam Griffin

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

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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. GeneralsRomeBiography.

3. Heads of stateRomeBiography. 4. RomeHistoryRepublic, 26530 B.C. I. Griffin, Miriam

T. (Miriam Tamara)

DG261.C76 2009

937.02092dc22

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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 (197198). His publications include Foreign Clientelae (26470BC), 1958; Studies in Greek and Roman History, 1964; Roman Imperialism in the Late Republic, 1967 (revised and enlarged as Rmischer Imperialismus in der Spten Republik, 1980); Publicans and Sinners, 1972 (translated into German and augmented as Zllner und Snder, 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 Queens 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