The
Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome
by Michael Parenti
Book Description
The story of popular resistance to wealth and power in ancient Rome.
Most historians, both ancient and modern, have viewed the Late Republic
of Rome through the eyes of its rich nobility. They regard Roman commoners
as a parasitic mob, a rabble interested only in bread and circuses. They
cast Caesar, who took up the popular cause, as a despot and demagogue,
and treat his murder as the outcome of a personal feud or constitutional
struggle, devoid of social content. In The Assassination of Julius Caesar,
the distinguished author Michael Parenti subjects these assertions of "gentlemen
historians" to a bracing critique, and presents us with a compelling story
of popular resistance against entrenched power and wealth. Parenti shows
that Caesar was only the last in a line of reformers, dating back across
the better part of a century, who were murdered by opulent conservatives.
Caesar's assassination set in motion a protracted civil war, the demise
of a five-hundred-year republic, and the emergence of an absolutist rule
that would prevail over Western Europe for centuries to come.
Parenti reconstructs the social and political context of Caesar's murder,
offering fascinating details about Roman society. In these pages we encounter
money-driven elections, the struggle for economic democracy, the use of
religious augury as an instrument of social control, the sexual abuse of
slaves, and the political use of homophobic attacks. Here is a story of
empire and corruption, patriarchs and subordinated women, self-enriching
capitalists and plundered provinces, slumlords and urban rioters, death
squads and political witch-hunts.
The Assassination of Julius Caesar offers a compelling new perspective
on an ancient era, one that contains many intriguing parallels to our own
times.
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Caesar
by Christian Meier, translated by David McLintock.
Book Description For centuries, Julius Caesar has endured in
our collective imagination as a favorite among historians and scholars,
playwrights and poets. In legend he lives as the great conqueror of Rome's
immense empire, a remarkable diplomat and writer, an unrivaled heartbreaker,
and a man of relentless determination who met a seemingly tragic end.
Caesar examines the riveting story of a complex man within the context
of the crisis of the Roman republic. Meier vividly reconstructs the distinctive
features of this age by emphasizing the prevalent educational practices
that imposed limitations on individual development. Meier clearly shows
that Caesar early on established himself as a man whose unique drive, self-confidence,
and detachment would bring him into continual conflict with established
institutions.
What were the political and social forces that shaped and challenged
this extraordinary individual? And how did this larger-than-life leader
truly affect the fate of the Roman republic and the course of history?
Internationally renowned historian Christian Meier explores these questions
in the most authoritative and accessible account ot Julius Caesar's life,
career, and legacy.
Paperback: 528 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.41 x
9.20 x 6.13
Publisher: Basic Books; ; (February 1997)
ISBN: 046500895X
Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion
and the Armies of Rome
by Stephen Dando-Collins
Listed under Roman Wars
Caesar:
Politician and Statesman
by Matthias Gelzer, Peter Needham (Translator)
Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.85 x 9.01 x 6.06
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; ; Reprint edition (October
1985)
ISBN: 0674090012
Caesar
Against Rome: The Great Roman Civil War
by Ramon L. Jimenez
Book Description Caesar Against Rome is an absorbing narrative
of the four-year Roman Civil War that began with Caesar's crossing of the
Rubicon in 49 BCE. Focusing always on Caesar, the book sketches a panorama
of Roman society--the first society to display the ambition, greed, and
intrigue of modern politics--in the last century before Christ. Caesar
was a complex and contradictory figure, extraordinarily talented and extremely
ambitious, but at the same time vain, careless, and inclined to be forgiving.
While Caesar's unusual clementia was a major factor in winning popular
support, soldiers, and towns to his side, it allowed virtually all enemy
leaders to return to the battlefield against him.
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; (February 28, 2000)
Caesar
Against the Celts
by Ramon L. Jimenez
Publisher: DaCapo Press; Reprint edition (June 1996)
Caesar:
A History of the Art of War Among the Romans Down to the End of the Roman
Empire, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of Caius Julius Caesar
by Theodore Ayrault Dodge
Publisher: DaCapo Press; Reprint edition (October 1997)
The
Civil War
by Julius Caesar
Book Description THE CIVIL WAR is Caesar's masterly account
of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from
the crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 B.C. to Pompey's death and the
start of the Alexandrian War in the autumn of the following year. This
generously annotated edition places the war in context and enables the
reader to grasp it both in detail and as a whole.
Paperback: 360 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x
7.78 x 5.12
Publisher: Viking Press; ; Reprint edition (November
1976)
ISBN: 0140441875
The
Education of Julius Caesar: A Biography, a Reconstruction
by Arthur D. Kahn
Book Description In The Education of Julius Caesar, a meticulously
researched and absorbing biography, Arthur Kahn brings Caesar alive and
explores the spirit of his age with intensity, illuminating the politics,
the technological and scientific developments, military struggles, and
the artistic and philosophical ferment.
Publisher: iUniverse.com; (April 2000)
Julius
Caesar: Man, Soldier, and Tyrant
by J. F. C. Fuller
Publisher: DaCapo Press; Reprint edition (May 1991)
Julius
Caesar: A Beginner's Guide
by Antony Kamm
Book Description This handy series from Headway offers brief
yet lucid introductions to the world's cultural icons. Each book examines
the life, the work, and the legends surrounding its subject, and key terms
and concepts are highlighted and clearly explained. Additionally, each
chapter ends with a review section for easy reference and to help consolidate
the reader's understanding of the text.
Paperback: 96 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.50 x
7.75 x 5.25
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton; ; (June 2002)
ISBN: 0340844566
Seven
Commentaries on the Gallic War
by Julius Caesar
Book Description The Gallic War, published on the eve of the
civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical
account written by one of the most famous figures of European history.
This new translation reflects the purity of Caesar's Latin while preserving
the pace and flow of his momentous narrative of the conquest of Gaul and
the first Roman invasions of Britain and Germany. Detailed notes, maps,
a table of dates, and glossary make this the most useful edition available.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; (February 1999)
ISBN: 0192835823
Fall
of the Roman Republic: Six Lives
by Plutarch, Rex Warner (Translator), Robin Seager (Designer)
Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper); Reprint edition (February 1954)
Plutarch:
Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans (Modern Library Series)
by A. H. Clough (Editor), John Dryden (Translator)
Book Description: Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning
of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient
world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In
what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the
character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to
tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains
profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lycurgus, Fabius
and Pericles, and many more powerful figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
The present translation, originally published in 1683 in conjunction
with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in 1864 by the poet
and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included
in this edition.
Publisher: Modern Library; Reprint edition (September
1992)
The Twelve Caesars
by Suetonius, translated by Robert Graves
Listed under Roman Emperors
The
Civil Wars
by Appianus, translated by John Carter
Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper); (December 1996)
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Julius
Caesar (1953) VHS
Starring: Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
An examination of the relationship between political power and personal
conscience, Joseph Mankiewicz's traditional Julius Caesar (1953) is a veritable
master class for aspiring thespians. As the opportunistic Marc Antony,
Marlon Brando delivers the famous funeral speech with pure conviction,
elsewhere casting an intense physicality that recalls his work in A Streetcar
Named Desire. James Mason suggests a latent Hamlet in his turn as the honorable
Brutus, while John Gielgud is positively serpentine as the lean, hungry
Cassius. Louis Calhern invests Caesar with intelligence and edgy noir echoes,
and director Mankiewicz astutely balances the Renaissance view of Caesar
as a power-obsessed, corrupt tyrant destined for punishment with modern
suggestions that his murder may have been ill advised. The director's scrupulous
pacing is supported in no small measure by Miklós Rósza's stunning score.
At film's end, power itself is without a master, and the spirit of Caesar
has been left unrevived: and to Mankiewicz's credit, the latter is revealed
to be the true tragedy of Julius Caesar. --Kevin Mulhall - Amazon.com
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Caesar - Shakespeare
Director: Stuart Burge
NTSC format, Color
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Stars Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh
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