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Contents List of illustrations List of contributors Foreword and acknowledgements Introduction 1 Judging Julius Caesar Christopher Pelling (University of Oxford) Literary Characterization 2 The earliest depiction of Caesar and the later tradition Mark Toher (Union College, New York) 3 Caesar, Lucan's Bellum Civile and their reception Christine Walde (Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz) 4 Julian Augustus' Julius Caesar Jacqueline Long (Loyola University Chicago) The City of Rome 5 The seat and memory of power: Caesar's Curia and Forum Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani (Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali del Comune di Roma) 6 St Peter's Needle and the ashes of Julius Caesar: invoking Rome's imperial history at the papal court ca. 1100- 1300 John Osborne (Queen's University, Kingston) 7 Julius II as second Caesar Nicholas Temple (University of Liverpool) Statecraft and Nationalism 7 Imitation gone wrong: The "pestilentially ambitious" figure of Julius Caesar in Montaigne's Essais Louisa Mackenzie (University of Washington, Seattle) 9 Manifest destiny and the eclipse of Julius Caesar Margaret Malamud (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces) 10 Caesar, cinema, and national identity in the 1910s Maria Wyke (University College, London) 11 Caesar the foe: Roman conquest and national resistance in French popular culture Giuseppe Pucci (University of Siena) Theatrical Performance 12 Julius Caesar and the democracy to come Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex) 13 Shaw's Caesars Niall W. Slater (Emory University, Atlanta) 14 The rhetoric of romanita: Representations of Caesar in fascist theatre Jane Dunnett (University of Wales, Swansea) Warfare and revolution 15 From 'capitano' to 'great commander': The military reception of Caesar from the sixteenth to the twentieth century Jorit Wintjes (Julius-Maximilians-Universitat, Wurzburg) 16 Crossing the Rubicon into Paris: Caesarian comparisons from Napoleon to de Gaulle Oliver Hemmerle (University of Chemnitz, Germany) Afterword 17 A twenty-first century Caesar Maria Wyke (University College, London) Bibliography
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Caesar, Julius -- Influence.
Civilization, Western -- Classical influences.