Julius Caesar in Western Culture - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1405125985 ISBN 13: 9781405125987

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2006

Riassunto

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 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.
  
• Includes original contributions by international experts on Caesar and his reception.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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).

Dalla quarta di copertina:

Julius Caesar is not only the most famous Roman of them all. He has also been surprisingly relevant in many different periods, for many different societies and people. Edited by a leading expert on the reception of ancient Rome, this interdisciplinary volume examines Caesar’s role in Western culture across a wide chronological range and diverse media.

Ranging over the fields of religious, military, and political history, archaeology, architecture and urban planning, the visual arts, and literary, film, theatre and cultural studies, contributors examine the Caesars of Italy, France, Germany, Britain, and the United States. Their objects of analysis extend from Caesar’s own commentaries on the Gallic wars composed in the 50s bce through Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, on to images of Caesar in twentieth-century Fascist Italy’s popular culture right up to contemporary cinema’s Caesar and twenty-first century debates about American empire.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1405125985
• ISBN 13: 9781405125987
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 365
• Redattore: Wyke Maria