Caesar et imperium

Abstract Caesar's Civil War is an unfinished masterpiece. It was abandoned by an author who found himself living in a different world than that which saw its commenc...

Abstract David Potter’s Master of Rome presents a compelling portrait of Julius Caesar, one of ancient Rome’s most consequential figures. Identifying as a “popular” ...

Perhaps more than any other single work, Shakespeare'sJulius Caesarhas popularized the image of Brutus as a ruthless and cowardly traitor, Caesar as a noble ruler and sympathetic v...

The Julius Caesar problem concerns cross-categorical identities such as “3 = Julius Caesar”. The problem and its significance to some Fregean projects are explained. The notions of...

Roman political leaders used distance from Rome as a key political tool to assert pre-eminence. Through the case studies of Caesar’s hegemony, Augustus’s autocracy, and Tiberi...

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare first performed in 1599. In the play, Brutus joins a conspiracy led by Cassius to assassinate Juli...

Revisiting the relation between Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and its primary classical source, North’s translation of Plutarch, this essay argues that the play rejects the clarifyin...

In the 21st century, the old colonial attitude of terra nullius, meaning a vacant place free for the taking, still lurks behind the global economic expropriation of peoples’ lands ...