Julius Caesar in Western Culture

This book explores the significance of Julius Caesar to different periods, societies and people from the 50s BC through to the twenty-first century. This interdisciplinary volume explores the significance of Julius Caesar to different periods, societies and people. This work 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. It 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, this work includes original contributions by international experts on Caesar and his reception.

ISBN 1405125993   Pages 384 ISBN13 9781405125994 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 548 Imprint Blackwell Publishing Ltd   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Height (mm) 228 Publication date 12 Jan 2006   Width (mm) 155 Library of Congress 2005015465   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY 700.451   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1		Judging Julius Caesar by Christopher Pelling		3
2		The earliest depiction of Caesar and the later tradition by Mark Toher		29
3		Caesar, Lucan's Bellum Civile, and their reception by Christine Walde		45
4		Julian Augustus' Julius Caesar by Jacqueline Long		62
5		The seat and memory of power : Caesar's curia and forum by Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani		85
6		St. Peter's needle and the ashes of Julius Caesar : invoking Rome's imperial history at the papal court, ca. 1100-1300 by John Osborne		95
7		Julius II as second Caesar by Nicholas Temple		110
8		Imitation gone wrong : the "pestilentially ambitious" figure of Julius Caesar in Michel de Montaigne's Essais by Louisa Mackenzie		131
9		Manifest destiny and the eclipse of Julius Caesar by Margaret Malamud		148
10		Caesar, cinema, and national identity in the 1910s by Maria Wyke		170
11		Caesar the foe : Roman conquest and national resistance in French popular culture by Guiseppe Pucci		190
12		Julius Caesar and the democracy to come by Nicholas Royle		205
13		Shaw's Caesars by Niall W. Slater		228
14		The rhetoric of Romanita : representations of Caesar in fascist theatre by Jane Dunnett		244
15		From "capitano" to "great commander" : the military reception of Caesar from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries by Jorit Wintjes		269
16		Crossing the rubicon into Paris : Caesarian comparisons from Napoleon to de Gaulle by Oliver Benjamin Hemmerle		285
17		A twenty-first-century Caesar by Maria Wyke		305

"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 <!--end--> "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 "A fascinating read which should appeal to a wide variety of 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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