Julius Caesar in Western Culture [Paperback]

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• This interdisciplinary volume explores the significance of Julius Caesar to different periods, societies and people.
  
• Ranges over the fields of religious, military, and political history, archaeology, architecture and urban planning, the visual arts, and literary, film, theatre and cultural studies.
  
• Examines representations of Caesar in Italy, France, Germany, Britain, and the United States in particular.
  
• Objects of analysis range from Caesar’s own commentaries on the Gallic wars, through Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, and images of Caesar in Italian fascist popular culture, to contemporary cinema and current debates about American empire.
  
• Edited by a leading expert on the reception of ancient Rome.
  
• Includes original contributions by international experts on Caesar and his reception.

Notes on Comntributors.

Preface and Acknowledgements.

Part I Introduction.

1. Judging Julius Caesar.

Christopher Pelling.

Part II Literary Characterization.

2. The Earliest Depiction of Caesar and the Later Tradition.

Mark Toher.

3. Caesar, Lucan's Bellum Civile,and their Reception.

Christine Walde.

4. Julian Augustus' Julius Caesar.

Jacqueline Long.

Part III The City of Rome.

5. The Seat and Memory of Power: Caesar's Curia and Forum.

Riccardo ValenzalÇ