Favoriet Caesar – Maria Wyke

From a Caesarian birth, via his conquest of Gaul and the decisive crossing of the Rubicon, to his love affair with Cleopatra and the fateful Ides of March …Even the cliches of his life reveal the extent to which Julius Caesar has become an enduring part of the fabric of western culture. In this book Maria Wyke explores the ways in which Caesar’s life has provided inexhaustible inspiration for two thousand years. In the Middle Ages he was held to be a ‘pagan saint’ whose conduct exemplified Christian virtu…