Julius Caesar's self-created image and its dramatic afterlife /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Miryana Dimitrova.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Bloomsbury Academic,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2018.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
viii, 236 pages ;
Dimensions
25 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Bloomsbury studies in classical reception.
GENERAL NOTES
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Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--King's College, London, 2013.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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"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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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"--
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Title
Julius Caesar's self-created image and its dramatic afterlife.