BIBLIOGRAPHY

Brown, Virginia. The Textual Transmission of Caesar's “Civil War.” Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1972, 96p.

Examines and describes assorted manuscripts of De Bello Civili.

BIOGRAPHIES

Fuller, J. F. C. Julius Caesar: Man, Soldier, Tyrant. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965, 114 p.

Uses classical sources in assessing Caesar's career as a general as sometimes brilliant, but sometimes blundering.

Gelzer, Matthias, Caesar: Politician and Statesman. Translated by Peter Needham, 1921. Reprint. Harvard University Press, 1985, 368 p.

Standard biography originally published in German.

Kahn, Arthur D. The Education of Julius Caesar: A Biography, A Reconstruction. New York: Schocken Books, 1986, 514 p.

Explores the life of Caesar in the context of his times.

CRITICISM

Balsdon, J. P. V. D. “The Veracity of Caesar.” Greece and Rome 4 (1957): 19-28.

Explores problems that arise in determining the truthfulness of Caesar's writings.

Eden, P. T. “Caesar's Style: Inheritance versus Intelligence. Glotta 40 (1962): 74-117.

Examines how and why Caesar developed his chronicles from the traditional annales.

Gotoff, H. C. “Towards a Practical Criticism of Caesar's Prose Style.” Illinois Classical Studies 9 (Spring, 1984): 1-18.

Argues that Caesar's sentence structure and overall writing style are not so plain as many critics believe.

Schlicher, J. J. “The Development of Caesar's Narrative Style.” Classical Philology 21, No. 3 (July 1936): 212-24.

Traces the evolution of Caesar's style from its early conservativeness to its following of contemporaneous rhetorical trends.

Wardle, D. “‘The Sainted Julius’: Valerius Maximus and the Dictator.” Classical Philology 92, No. 4 (October 1997): 323-45.

Assesses the importance of Valerius Maximus's portrayal of Caesar.

White, Peter. “Julius Caesar in Augustan Rome.” Phoenix 42 (Winter 1988): 334-56.

Examines Augustus's treatment of Caesar by way of monuments, ceremonies, and writing.

Williams, Mark F. “Caesar's Bibracte Narrative and the Aims of Caesarian Style.” Illinois Classical Studies 10 (Fall, 1985): 215-26.

Contends that scholars perform a disservice to Caesar's writings when they judge them according to standards of Ciceronian style.