The Folio · 1928 · restored 2025

The Mantle of Caesar

Friedrich Gundolf — Friedrich Gundolf traces how the image of Julius Caesar was claimed, adapted, and wielded by every subsequent age that needed to justify power.

Friedrich Gundolf traces how the image of Julius Caesar was claimed, adapted, and wielded by every subsequent age that needed to justify power. The book moves from the emperors who directly succeeded Caesar through the medieval kings who took his title, to Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Napoleon. This is the first republication in many decades of Hartmann's 1928 English translation.

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Gundolf, Friedrich. The Mantle of Caesar (1928). Bulkington Books, 2025.