Julius Caesar in Western Culture

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.