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Julius Caesar: The Life and Times of the People's Dictator
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by Luciano Canfora
Sales Rank: 637620
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List Price: $29.95
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 408 pages
Published by: University of California Press; English Language Ed edition April 16, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0520235029
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0520235021
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6 x 1.3 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Book Description
In this splendid profile, Luciano Canfora offers a radically new interpretation of one of the most controversial figures in history. Julius Caesar played a leading role in the culture and politics of a world empire, dwarfing his contemporaries in ambition, achievement, and appetite. For that, he has occupied a central place in the political imagination ever since. Yet Caesar, struck down by his own lieutenants because he could not be comprehended nor contained, remains an enigma. The result of a comprehensive study of the ancient sources, Julius Caesar: The Life and Times of the People's Dictator paints an astonishingly detailed portrait of this complex man and the times in which he lived. Based on his many years of research, Canfora focuses on what we actually know about Caesar, the man of politics and war, in a stylish, engaging narrative chronologically structured around the events in Caesar's life. The result is a rich, revelatory, full biographical portrait of the dictator whose mission of Romanization lies at the very heart of modern Europe.
Copub: Edinburgh University Press
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"A fluid, distinctive, and highly intelligent portrait of Caesar in his times."--Clifford Ando, author of Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire
"Master of the complex source material and at home in the vast secondary literature, Canfora has used his experience with communism to construct a subtle, original quest for 'the real Caesar,' the proletarian dictator. The book can only enrich research and teaching."--William M. Calder III, William Abbott Oldfather Professor of the Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
Reader Reviews
This is not a chatty narrative meant for beginners, but a skillful synthesis of ancient sources leavened by polemical engagement with key modern authorities. Only time will tell whether this book belongs in the company of Syme and Mommsen, to which its author so clearly aspires. For now, it will richly reward readers familiar with their Suetonius and Plutarch as well as Caesar's own Commentaries, in a fashion no less self-serving than that dished out by "the people's dictator" himself.
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