UID:
almafu_9959328062102883
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 365 pages) :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9780470775042
,
0470775041
,
9781405154710
,
1405154713
,
1405125985
,
9781405125987
,
1405125993
,
9781405125994
,
1280748257
,
9781280748257
Content:
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. 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.
Note:
Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Judging Julius Caesar Christopher Pelling; 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; 5 The Seat and Memory of Power: Caesar's Curia and Forum Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani; 6 St. Peter's Needle and the Ashes of Julius Caesar: Invoking Rome's Imperial History at the Papal Court, ca. 1100-1300 John Osborne; 7 Julius II as Second Caesar Nicholas Temple.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Julius Caesar in western culture. Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2006 ISBN 9781405125987
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1405125985
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Electronic books.
;
Electronic books.
;
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.1002/9780470775042
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470775042
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470775042
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470775042
