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More Than Two Millennia Have Passed Since Brutus And His Companions Murdered Julius Caesar - And Inaugurated His Legend. Though The Assassins Succeeded In Ending Caesar's Dictatorship, They Could Never Have Imagined That His Power And Influence Would Only Grow After His Death, Reaching Mythic Proportions And Establishing Him As One Of The Central Icons Of Western Culture, Fascinating Armchair Historians And Specialists Alike. With Caesar, Maria Wyke Takes Up The Question Of Just Why Julius Caesar Has Become Such An Exalted Figure When Most Of His Fellow Romans Have Long Been Forgotten. Focusing On Key Events In Caesar's Life, She Begins With Accounts From Ancient Sources, Then Traces The Ways In Which His Legend Has Been Adapted And Employed By Everyone From Machiavelli To Madison Avenue, Shakespeare To George Bernard Shaw. Napoleon And Mussolini, For Example, Cited Caesar's Crossing Of The Rubicon In Defense Of Their Own Dictatorial Aims, While John Wilkes Booth Fancied Himself A New Brutus, Ridding America Of An Imperial Scourge. Caesar's Personal Life, Too, Has Long Been Fair Game - But The Lessons We Draw From It Have Changed: Suetonius Derided Caesar For His Lustfulness And Hi

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Author

Wyke, Maria

Publisher

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226921532

Category

history

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Memoir, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.33 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14