Julius Caesar in Western CultureMaria Wyke John Wiley & Sons, 15/04/2008 - 384 من الصفحات This book explores the significance of Julius Caesar to different periods, societies and people from the 50s BC through to the twenty-first century.
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... emperors and popes. The central section of the volume, “Statecraft and Nationalism,” moves beyond material memory and ritual imitation in the city of Rome to explore Caesar's new crucial function in discourses of government, nationalism ...
... emperors and popes. The central section of the volume, “Statecraft and Nationalism,” moves beyond material memory and ritual imitation in the city of Rome to explore Caesar's new crucial function in discourses of government, nationalism ...
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... end that mattered most in the story, as the emperor was stirred to fury by Caesar's assassination. For him it was a “cowardly and impolitic” deed (not quite the “foul” deed that it is for Shakespeare's 6 6 Christopher Pelling.
... end that mattered most in the story, as the emperor was stirred to fury by Caesar's assassination. For him it was a “cowardly and impolitic” deed (not quite the “foul” deed that it is for Shakespeare's 6 6 Christopher Pelling.
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... emperor, and who in his final days expressed his wish that his bloodline would spend as little time as possible at the court of kings; let them marry and live in Republics, especially in the United States of America?7 For in those days ...
... emperor, and who in his final days expressed his wish that his bloodline would spend as little time as possible at the court of kings; let them marry and live in Republics, especially in the United States of America?7 For in those days ...
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... emperors will do worse. That is partly because ruling is so very difficult, such a difficult thing to do that even the most gifted of humans, even a Caesar, may fall into traps. The challenges that face such a man, and the dangers he ...
... emperors will do worse. That is partly because ruling is so very difficult, such a difficult thing to do that even the most gifted of humans, even a Caesar, may fall into traps. The challenges that face such a man, and the dangers he ...
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... emperor.53 Much earlier than that, there is a little of both the causal and the emblematic strand already in Nicolaus of Damascus. Caesar and his assassination did much to create the world in which Augustus had to operate, so that his ...
... emperor.53 Much earlier than that, there is a little of both the causal and the emblematic strand already in Nicolaus of Damascus. Caesar and his assassination did much to create the world in which Augustus had to operate, so that his ...
المحتوى
Part II Literary Characterization | 27 |
Part III The City of Rome | 83 |
Part IV Statecraft and Nationalism | 129 |
Part V Theatrical Performance | 203 |
Part VI Warfare and Revolution | 267 |
Afterword | 303 |
Bibliography | 324 |
Index | 352 |
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