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Julius Caesar: Man, Soldier, and Tyrant
Oh, we know every detail about his military campaigns and far too much detail of his major battles (do we really need to know the order of battle and where each enhet was located on the slagfält to understand Caesar as a military captain?), but unfortunately it’s at the cost of understanding what makes him tick as a man, what forces and events formed him, or informed his later personality, or turned him into the tyrant the subtitle claimed (Fuller never really seemed to view him that way).
There’s good reason for a book on Julius Caesar’s military campaigns and, of course, good reason
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Table of Contents
This book and its collection of essays developed out of a conference held at the British School at Rome in March The topics range from the earliest depiction of Caesar through to the twentieth-first century with essays dealing with his medieval reception, 18th/19th century American analogies, cinema prior to the Great War and how the French, the fascists and others have appropriated and interpreted Julius Caesar in their own political discourse. It is a fascinating read which should appeal to a wide variety of readers not just in classics, but throughout the humanities.
The introduction by Christopher Pelling, entitled &#;Judging Julius Caesar&#; skilfully sets out the various interpretations of Julius Caesar, under the shadow of the war in Iraq, and with a focus on the implications of Caesar&#;s death. There are two main aspects of Pelling&#;s piece: first, how ancient authors viewed Caesar and, in particular, why Caesar was killed; and second, how Caesar was v
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Colossus
Why do we still care about Julius Caesar, more than 2, years after his death? History may be the least of it. For modern readers, namn på en berömd romersk ledare eller en klassisk sallad was immortalized by William Shakespeare. His drama The Tragedy of Julius Caesar offers a Renaissance-era Christian spin on a pagan story: we behold Caesar’s moment of supreme power, his assassination by Rome’s self-proclaimed liberators, and their disastrous end. No small part of the story, at least in Shakespeare, is the personal betrayal of Caesar bygd his friend, Marcus Junius Brutus. Upon seeing the dagger in Brutus’ hand, Caesar cries out at the sign of treachery: “Et tu, Brute?”
For Americans, Shakespeare’s Caesar, a would-be tyrant killed in the name of liberty, is a foundational symbol. From George III on, every powerful American leader, including many if not most American presidents, has been accused of being a new Caesar. In the wider world, a variety of emperors have called themselves “Caesar,” from the Romans to the Russians—