Companion to Julius Caesar

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)

• List of Figures viiiNotes on Contributors xPreface xviReference Works: Abbreviated Titles xviii1 Introduction 1Part I Biography: Narrative 92 From the Iulii to Caesar 11Ernst Badian3 Caesar as a Politician 23Erich S. Gruen4 The Proconsular Years: Politics at a Distance 37John T. Ramsey5 The Dictator 57Jane F. Gardner6 The Assassination 72Andrew LintottPart II Biography: Themes 837 General and Imperialist 85Nathan Rosenstein8 Caesar and Religion 100David Wardle9 Friends, Associates, and Wives 112Catherine Steel10 Caesar the Man 126Jeremy Paterson11 Caesar as an Intellectual 141Elaine FanthamPart III Caesar’s Extant Writings 15712 Bellum Gallicum 159Christina S. Kraus13 Bellum Civile 175Kurt Raaflaub14 The Continuators: Soldiering On 192Ronald CluettPart IV Caesar’s Reputation at Rome 20715 Caesar’s Political and Military Legacy to the Roman Emperors 209Barbara Levick16 Augustan and Tiberian Literature 224Mark Toher17 Neronian Literature: Seneca and Lucan 239Matthew Leigh18 The First Biographers: Plutarch and Suetonius 252Christopher Pelling19 The Roman Historians after Livy 267Luke Pitcher20 The First Emperor: The View of Late Antiquity 277Timothy Barnes21 The Irritating Statues and Contradictory Portraits of Julius Caesar 288Paul ZankerPart V Caesar’s Place in History 31522 The Middle Ages 317Almut Suerbaum23 Empire, Eloquence, and Military Genius: Renaissance Italy 335Martin McLaughlin24 Some Renaissance Caesars 356Carol Clark25 Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and the Dramatic Tradition 371Julia Griffin26 The Enlightenment 399Thomas Biskup27 Caesar and the Two Napoleons 410Claude Nicolet28 Republicanism, Caesarism, and Political Change 418Nicholas Cole29 Caesar for Communists and Fascists 431Luciano Canfora30 A Twenty-First-Century Caesar 441Maria WykeBibliography 456Index 492