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Chapter Title: Front Matter
Book Title: Julius Caesar
Book Subtitle: The People's Dictator
Book Author(s): Luciano Canfora
Published by: Edinburgh University Press. (2007)
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Julius Caesar
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Julius Caesar
The People’s Dictator
Luciano Canfora
Translated from the Italian
by Marian Hill and Kevin Windle
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
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© Gius. Laterza & Figli S.p.a., Roma-Bari, 1999. English language edition published by
arrangement with Eulama Literary Agency, Rome. First published in Italy as Giulio
Cesare: Il Dittatore Democratico.
English translation © Marian Hill and Kevin Windle, 2007
Edinburgh University Press Ltd
22 George Square, Edinburgh
Typeset in 11/13pt Adobe Sabon
by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Manchester, and
printed and bound in Great Britain by
Cromwell Press, Trowbridge, Wilts
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ISBN 978 0 7486 1936 8 (hardback)
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Edinburgh University Press
Chapter Title: Table of Contents
Book Title: Julius Caesar
Book Subtitle: The People's Dictator
Book Author(s): Luciano Canfora
Published by: Edinburgh University Press. (2007)
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Contents
Translators’ Note vii
Acknowledgements viii
Foreword ix
PART I FROM SULLA TO CATILINE 1
1 In Flight from Sulla: First Experiences of
an Aristocratic Youth 3
2 Prisoner of the Pirates (75–74 bc) 9
3 The Rise of a Party Leader 14
4 Pontifex Maximus 23
5 The ‘Affairs’ of Mr Julius Caesar and Others 26
6 The Political Market 33
7 Inside and Outside the Conspiracy 39
8 Caesar’s Senate Speech Rewritten by Sallust 54
PART II FROM THE TRIUMVIRATE TO THE
CONQUEST OF GAUL 61
9 The ‘Three-Headed Monster’ 63
10 The Consequences of the Triumvirate:
The View of Asinius Pollio 72
11 The First Consulship (59 bc) 78
12 An Inconvenient Ally: Clodius 83
13 Semiramis in Gaul 88
14 The Conquest of Gaul (58–51 bc) 98
15 The Black Book of the Gallic Campaign 118
PART III THE LONG CIVIL WAR 125
16 Towards the Crisis 127
17 Striving after Tyranny? 137
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vi Julius Caesar: The People’s Dictator
18 Attacking the World with Five Cohorts 141
19 Caesar’s ‘Programme’: In Search of Consensus 150
20 ‘Amicitia’ 159
21 From the Rubicon to Pharsalus 165
22 Against Subversion 184
23 Alexandria 188
24 Caesar Saved by the Jews 209
25 From Syria to Zela 218
26 The Long Civil War 229
27 The Shoot of a Palm Tree: The Young Octavius
Emerges 245
28 ‘Anticato’ 256
PART IV FROM THE CONSPIRACY TO THE
TRIUMPH OF CAESARISM 261
29 Inklings of Conspiracy 263
30 ‘Iure caesus’ 269
31 The Lupercalia Drama 281
32 The Dictatorship 287
33 Epicureans in Revolt? 296
34 The Hetairia of Cassius and the Recruitment of
Brutus 306
35 A Conspirator’s Realism: Cassius Settles for the
Second Rank 311
36 Some Unexpected Refusals 314
37 Cicero – an Organiser of the Conspiracy? 317
38 The Serious Mistake of Dismissing the Escort 322
39 The Dynamics of the ‘Tyrannicide’ 325
40 ‘Where’s Antony?’ 334
41 Caesar’s Body: How to Turn Victory into Defeat 337
42 The Wind 344
Chronology 349
Bibliography 370
Index 377
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Edinburgh University Press
Chapter Title: Translators’ Note
Chapter Author(s): Kevin Windle and Marian Hill
Book Title: Julius Caesar
Book Subtitle: The People's Dictator
Book Author(s): Luciano Canfora
Published by: Edinburgh University Press. (2007)
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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
