Julius Caesar's self-created image and its dramatic afterlife /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Dimitrova, Miryana (συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Bloomsbury, 2018.
• Σειρά: Bloomsbury studies in classical reception
• Θέματα: Καίσαρ, Ιούλιος > > στη λογοτεχνία; Αγγλικό δράμα > Ιστορία και κριτική

"The first analysis of Julius Caesar's self-representation in his Commentaries, from the point of view of how the themes and characterisation have been appropriated or contested by major dramatic representations"--

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• "I am he": aspects of Caesar's self-representation in the commentaries
• Efficient benevolence, the shadow of hubris and an Eastern infatuation
• "For always I am Caesar": performative actualization of Caesar's self-styled image and illeism as a marker of self-institutionalization
• Transhistorical and quasi-divine: Caesar connecting the threads of time.