Caesar in the USA - Hardcover

Wyke, Maria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520273915 ISBN 13: 9780520273917

Publisher: University of California Press, 2012

Synopsis

The figure of Julius Caesar has loomed large in the United States since its very beginning, admired and evoked as a gateway to knowledge of politics, war, and even national life. In this lively and perceptive book, the first to examine Caesar's place in modern American culture, Maria Wyke investigates how his use has intensified in periods of political crisis, when the occurrence of assassination, war, dictatorship, totalitarianism or empire appears to give him fresh relevance. Her fascinating discussion shows how―from the Latin classroom to the Shakespearean stage, from cinema, television and the comic book to the internet―Caesar is mobilized in the U.S. as a resource for acculturation into the American present, as a prediction of America’s future, or as a mode of commercial profit and great entertainment.

About this title

About the Author

Maria Wyke is Professor of Latin at University College London.

From the Back Cover

Maria Wyke's Caesar in the USA is the first comprehensive account of the Roman warrior and dictator's profound impact on the history of the United States, both as an author whose works were studied widely in American schools and as a perpetual national villain charged with having overthrown the world's most celebrated republic, the chief model for the United States Constitution. Concise, lucid, solidly researched, and often fascinating, this book is a tremendous achievement.―Carl J. Richard, author of Why We're All Romans: The Roman Contribution to the Western World

From the Inside Flap

Maria Wyke's Caesar in the USA is the first comprehensive account of the Roman warrior and dictator's profound impact on the history of the United States, both as an author whose works were studied widely in American schools and as a perpetual national villain charged with having overthrown the world's most celebrated republic, the chief model for the United States Constitution. Concise, lucid, solidly researched, and often fascinating, this book is a tremendous achievement. Carl J. Richard, author of Why We're All Romans: The Roman Contribution to the Western World

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520273915
• ISBN 13: 9780520273917
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320