Edinburgh University Press Chapter Title: Front Matter Book Title: Julius Caesar Book Subtitle: The People's Dictator Book Author(s): Luciano Canfora Published by: Edinburgh University Press. (2007) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r26rr.1 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms Edinburgh University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Julius Caesar This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:09:11 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Julius Caesar This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:09:11 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:09:11 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Julius Caesar The People’s Dictator Luciano Canfora Translated from the Italian by Marian Hill and Kevin Windle EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:09:11 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms © Gius. Laterza & Figli S.p.a., Roma-Bari, 1999. English language edition published by arrangement with Eulama Literary Agency, Rome. First published in Italy as Giulio Cesare: Il Dittatore Democratico. English translation © Marian Hill and Kevin Windle, 2007 Edinburgh University Press Ltd 22 George Square, Edinburgh Typeset in 11/13pt Adobe Sabon by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Manchester, and printed and bound in Great Britain by Cromwell Press, Trowbridge, Wilts A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 0 7486 1936 8 (hardback) The right of Luciano Canfora to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. The translation of this work has been funded by SEPS SEGRETARIATO EUROPEO PER LE PUBBLICAZIONI SCIENTIFICHE Via Val d'Aposa 7 - 40123 Bologna - Italy [email protected] - www.seps.it This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:09:11 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Edinburgh University Press Chapter Title: Table of Contents Book Title: Julius Caesar Book Subtitle: The People's Dictator Book Author(s): Luciano Canfora Published by: Edinburgh University Press. (2007) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r26rr.2 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms Edinburgh University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Julius Caesar This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:09:17 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Contents Translators’ Note vii Acknowledgements viii Foreword ix PART I FROM SULLA TO CATILINE 1 1 In Flight from Sulla: First Experiences of an Aristocratic Youth 3 2 Prisoner of the Pirates (75–74 bc) 9 3 The Rise of a Party Leader 14 4 Pontifex Maximus 23 5 The ‘Affairs’ of Mr Julius Caesar and Others 26 6 The Political Market 33 7 Inside and Outside the Conspiracy 39 8 Caesar’s Senate Speech Rewritten by Sallust 54 PART II FROM THE TRIUMVIRATE TO THE CONQUEST OF GAUL 61 9 The ‘Three-Headed Monster’ 63 10 The Consequences of the Triumvirate: The View of Asinius Pollio 72 11 The First Consulship (59 bc) 78 12 An Inconvenient Ally: Clodius 83 13 Semiramis in Gaul 88 14 The Conquest of Gaul (58–51 bc) 98 15 The Black Book of the Gallic Campaign 118 PART III THE LONG CIVIL WAR 125 16 Towards the Crisis 127 17 Striving after Tyranny? 137 This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:09:17 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms vi Julius Caesar: The People’s Dictator 18 Attacking the World with Five Cohorts 141 19 Caesar’s ‘Programme’: In Search of Consensus 150 20 ‘Amicitia’ 159 21 From the Rubicon to Pharsalus 165 22 Against Subversion 184 23 Alexandria 188 24 Caesar Saved by the Jews 209 25 From Syria to Zela 218 26 The Long Civil War 229 27 The Shoot of a Palm Tree: The Young Octavius Emerges 245 28 ‘Anticato’ 256 PART IV FROM THE CONSPIRACY TO THE TRIUMPH OF CAESARISM 261 29 Inklings of Conspiracy 263 30 ‘Iure caesus’ 269 31 The Lupercalia Drama 281 32 The Dictatorship 287 33 Epicureans in Revolt? 296 34 The Hetairia of Cassius and the Recruitment of Brutus 306 35 A Conspirator’s Realism: Cassius Settles for the Second Rank 311 36 Some Unexpected Refusals 314 37 Cicero – an Organiser of the Conspiracy? 317 38 The Serious Mistake of Dismissing the Escort 322 39 The Dynamics of the ‘Tyrannicide’ 325 40 ‘Where’s Antony?’ 334 41 Caesar’s Body: How to Turn Victory into Defeat 337 42 The Wind 344 Chronology 349 Bibliography 370 Index 377 This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:09:17 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Edinburgh University Press Chapter Title: Translators’ Note Chapter Author(s): Kevin Windle and Marian Hill Book Title: Julius Caesar Book Subtitle: The People's Dictator Book Author(s): Luciano Canfora Published by: Edinburgh University Press. (2007) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r26rr.3 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms Edinburgh University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Julius Caesar This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:09:23 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms