Julius Caesar's Self-Created Image and Its Dramatic Afterlife.
Julius Caesar's Self-Created Image and Its Dramatic Afterlife.
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781474245777 (electronic bk.)
9781474245753
9781474245753
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İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/0205
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Yayın Bilgisi
©2017.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (258 pages)
Dizi
Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception Ser.
İçindekiler Notu
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Caesar Is Dead. Long Live Caesar! -- The commentaries -- The plays -- Lucan and the historiographers -- Structure and scope of the book -- 1. 'I Am He': Aspects of Caesar's Self-Representation in the Commentaries -- An overview of the enemy -- Speed/efficiency -- Rationality and benevolence -- Author-character interaction -- The Caesarean world beyond the narrative-the author-character and his audience -- Coda: the continuators -- 2. Efficient Benevolence, the Shadow of Hubris and an Eastern Infatuation -- Celerity or furor? -- Practical and merciful -- Caesar's greatness against the rhetoric of the vanquished -- A balancing act - ruthless but honourable -- Caesar's hubris is in the eye of the conspirator -- The Cleopatra subversion effect -- 3. 'For Always I Am Caesar': Performative Actualization of Caesar's Self-Styled Image and Illeism as a Marker of Self-Institutionalization -- The world is a stage -- The power of the name -- Degrees of self-institutionalization -- The political role -- 4. Transhistorical and Quasi-Divine: Caesar Connecting the Threads of Time -- Embodying past, present and future -- Supernatural à la Lucan and a descendant of Venus -- Ghostly presence -- The human side of greatness -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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