Caesar and the Fading of the Roman World: A Study in Republicanism and Caesarism

by Peter Baehr

Book Overview

For many centuries, Julius Caesar was a name that evoked strong feelings among educated people. Some of these responses were complimentary, but others came from the point of view of "political republicanism"-which envisaged Caesar as a historical symbol for some of the most dangerous tendencies a polity could experience. Caesar represented everything that republicans detested-corruption, demagogy, usurpation-and as such, provided an antimodel against...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560003049
• ISBN13: 9781560003045
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"