Table of Contents

List of Maps
Abbreviations
Introduction
1: Plutarch and the Caesars
2: TheLife of Caesar
a) Biography and History
b) Alexander and Caesar: Pair and Series
3: Sources and Methods
a) Gathering the Material
b) The Sources
c) Remoulding the Material
4: Plutarch and Roman Politics
5: Caesar and Julius Caesar: Plutarch and Shakespeare
Translation
Commentary
Indexes
Names
General Index

About the Author

Christopher Pelling is Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University.

Reviews

a commentary that will remain an indispensable resource for historians and historiographers alike â and which constitutes something of a reproof to anyone insisting that history and historiography are incompatible enterprises.
*W. Jeffrey Tatum, Journal of Roman Studies*

[an] awe-filling, exemplar of how decades of excellent scholarship have produced a book that will be in use for many decades, and generations, to come.
*Brad L. Cook, Bryn Mawr Classical Review*