Book Series Rome Studies, vol. 2

Caesar’s Visions and Impact on the Roman Empire

Revisiting the Archaeological and Historical Record of the 40s BC

Krešimir Matijević, Rubina Raja, Jörg Rüpke (eds)

  • Pages: approx. 268 p.
  • Size:216 x 280 mm
  • Illustrations:88 col.
  • Language(s):English
  • Publication Year:2026


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A new Caesar emerging from the stroboscope of interdisciplinary cooperation and combining looks through the eyes of the historical actor as much as later friends and foes, a local and global agent.

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BIO

Krešimir Matijević is professor of Ancient History at Leipzig University, Germany
Rubina Raja is professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Jörg Rüpke is professor of comparative history of religion at the Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt University, Germany     

Summary

Conqueror of Gaul, textbook author, demagogue, gravedigger of the Republic, first emperor: Caesar, and in particular the Caesar of the 40s BC, is equally Roman superstar and notorious dictator, and certainly one of the most controversial figures of Roman history. Bringing together specialists of various disciplines and representatives of different schools of thought, this volume offers a fresh appreciation of both Caesar as an historical character and of a period that irrevocably turned Rome into a military, political, and cultural centre and a point of reference for the ancient Mediterranean world.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

1. Caesar’s Visions and Impact on the Roman Empire: Revisiting the Archaeological and Historical Record for the 40s BC
Krešimir Matijević, Rubina Raja, and Jörg Rüpke

2. Caesar’s Dictatura Perpetua Revisited, in Light of the Newly Published Fragment of the Consular Fasti
Robert Morstein-Marx

3. Caesar’s monumentum and his Vision for Rome. Missing Entrances and Conjectural Connections: Probing the Boundaries of Rome’s First Imperial Forum
Christopher Hallet and Rubina Raja

4. Caesar from the Campus Martius to the Vici: Towards a New Idea of the Roman People?
Valentina Arena

5. Preservation and Change: The Ambiguous Legacy of the Syracusan ἀμφιπολία after Caesar’s Policies
Sofia Bianchi Mancini

6. Valerius Maximus on Julius Caesar and Public Speech in the 40s BC
Henriette van der Blom

7. ‘Like Bellona Brandishing Her Blood-Stained Lash’ (VII. 568): The Demonization of Caesar in Lucan’s Bellum Civile
Nicola Hömke

8. Complex Dynamics: Cleopatra and her Relationship with Caesar, Antony, and Octavian in Ludvig Holberg’s Biography of Cleopatra (1745)
Trine Arlund Hass

9. The Horizon of Rome: Julius Caesar’s Rise to the Top and the End of the Republic
Martin Jehne

10. Caesar’s Impact on his Successors in the Triumviral Period
Krešimir Matijević

11. Some Caesarian Precedents
Michael Koortbojian

12. God and Foundational Figure: Veneration of Caesar as the First Roman Axial Age Religion
Jörg  Rüpke

13. Julius Caesar’s Transformation of the Roman Currency
Bernhard E.  Woytek

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