List of Illustrations.
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 Valenzani.
6. St Peter's Needle and the Ashes of Julius Caesar.
John Osborne.
7. Julius II as Second Caesar.
Nicholas Temple.
Part IV Nationalism and Statecraft.
8. Imitation Gone Wrong: The "Pestilentially Ambitious" Figure of Julius Caesar in Montaigne's Essais.
Louisa Mackenzie.
9. Manifest Destiny and the Eclipse of Julius Caesar.
Margaret Malamud.
10. Caesar, Cinema, and National Identity in the 1910s.
Maria Wyke.
11. Caesar the Foe: Roman Conquest and National Resistance in Freanch Popular Culture. in Fascist Italy.
Giuseppe Pucci.
Part V Theatrical Performance.
12. Julius Caesar and the Democracy to Come.
Nicholas Royle.
13. Shaw's Caesars.
Niall Slater.
14. The Rhetoric of Romanita: Representations of Caesar in Fascist Theatre.
Jane Dunnett.
Part VI Warfare and Revolution.
15. From "Capitano" to "Great Commander": The Military Reception of Caesar from the Sisteenth to the Twentieth Centuries.
Jorit Wintjes.
16. Crossing the Rubicon into Paris: Caesarian Comparisons from Napoleon to de Gaulle.
Oliver Benjamin Hemmerle.
Afterword.
17. A Twenty-First-Century Caesar.
Maria Wyke.
Bibliography.
Index.
Maria Wyke is Professor of Latin at University College London. She is author of Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History (1997) and The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations (2000), and is now working on her next publication Caesar: A Life in Western Culture (2006).
“This is reception criticism at its best … Caesar does not invite
but rather demands reaction and reflection, a demand admirably met
in this collection. Important, influential, and timely deployments
of Caesar’s legacy are creatively analyzed here, in essays none of
which (I am pleased to say) is afraid of speaking its mind.”
W. Jeffrey Tatum, Florida State University
“An exciting collection of papers by a truly international team of
scholars. This richly illustrated and documented volume explores
the significance of Caesar’s memory in the discourses of art,
literature, nationalism, and empire.”
Christina S. Kraus, Yale University
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readers not just in the classics, but throughout the
humanities."
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"There is a remarkable diversity of discipline and methodology –
not to mention nationality – on display here, and it reflects well
on (Wykes’) choice of contributors and unintrusive editorial
style."
Llewelyn Morgan, Brasenose College, Oxford
"Appealing both to a reader possibly unfamiliar with the material,
but also being of much interest to fellow specialists in this
field." Scholia Reviews
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