Julius Caesar Study Guide

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Study Guide

Non-Fiction

• "Caesar's Final Aims," by Victor Ehrenberg. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 68, (1964), pp. 149-161.
• Caesar : Life of a Colossus, by Adrian Goldsworthy
• The Last Generation of the Roman Republic, by Erich Gruen.
• Caesar, by Christian Meier. 1995
• From the Gracchi to Nero, by H.H. Scullard. Reissued in 1990.
• Party Politics in the Age of Caesar, by Lily Ross Taylor. Reissued in 1995.
• The Roman Revolution, by Ronald Syme. 1969.
• Great Caesar!, by Plantagenet Somerset Fry. 1974.

Fiction

Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series provides a well researched historical fiction series on Julius Caesar:

• First Man in Rome
• The Grass Crown
• Fortune's Favorites
• Caesar's Women
• Caesar, A Novel
• The October Horse

Ancient Sources

• Suetonius - Caesar
• Plutarch - Caesar
  Other Sources on Julius Caesar

Questions to Consider

1.

What would have happened to Rome had Caesar remained in power?

Would the Republic have continued?

Was the change from Republic to Empire inevitable?

2.

Were Caesar's assasins traitors?

Was Caesar a traitor when he crossed the Rubicon?

Under what circumstances is treason justified?

3.

Why is Caesar the greatest leader ever?

What reasons are there for saying he was not?

What are Caesar's most important/lasting contributions?

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