Caesar: Slain with Daggers but Stabbed with Words or Cicero as a Failure and Fraud
From around 50 until his death in 43 Cicero wrote much of the dictator Julius Caesar, during Caesar’s rise to power as well as after his death.
Primitive or Ideal? Gender and Ethnocentrism in Roman Accounts of Germany
When constructing the cultural geography of the world they lived in, the Romans often defined themselves, like the Greeks before them, in contrast to a cultural ‘Other’ or ‘barbarian.’
The cult of the goddess Roma in the Roman province of Dalmatia
A major role in emperor worship was played by Dea Roma, a Greek goddess who was unknown in Roman religion until the second century BC. During the Republican era, this deity only had the narrower geographic significance of the city of Rome, while the Greeks of the Hellenistic era elevated her into a divine personification of the Roman Republic and the entire Roman populace (Populus Romanus).
The regional imperial cult in the Roman province of Dalmatia
The province of Dalmatia was divided into three juridical districts (conventi iuridici): Scardona, Salona and Narona, of which the first was organized on the basis of the territorial principle and encompassed a higher number of municipalities (civitates) at once, while the Salona and Narona conventus communities were registered in accordance with narrower kinship communities, i.e. decuria.
The Pen and the Sword: Writing and Conquest in Caesar's Gaul
Julius Caesar was remembered in later times for the unprecedented scale of his military activity. He was also remembered for writing copiously while on campaign.
Tyrants and Tyranny in the Late Roman Republic
During Cicero
A General's Self-Depiction: The Political Strategies of Gaius Julius Caesar as Seen in the Commentarii de Bello Gallico
I will show that Caesar utilized his Commentarii de Bello Gallico as a means of propaganda to justify his military conquests, manipulate the masses, and imprint his seal on the letter of history.
Clodius Pulcher: Caesar
Publius Clodius Pulcher, the patrician at the center of this scandal, became a means to control Caesar’s interests and enemies in the senate enabled Caesar to continue his path to dictatorship, mostly unrestrained. Clodius became a willing ‘puppet’ to Caesar because of the Bone Dea affair.
The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome
Argues that Julius Caesar was assassinated because wealthy and conservative elites wanted to block Caesar’s reforms.
Caesar or Rex?
In the last two years of his life Julius Caesar held absolute power in Rome and he was a monarch in everything except name. Was this, however, his objective since the beginning of his political career?