Julius Caesar has always been surprisingly relevant to different periods, societies and people. Edited by a leading expert on the reception of Roman culture, this interdisciplinary volume examines Caesar's role in Western culture across a wide chronological span and diverse media. Ranging over the fields of religious, military, and political history, archaeology, architecture, museology, and film, theatre, literary and cultural studies, contributors examine representations of Caesar in Italy, France, Germany, Britain, and the United States. Their objects of analysis extend from Caesar's own commentaries on the Gallic wars in the 50s BC; through Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; and images of Caesar in twentieth-century Italian fascist popular culture; right through to contemporary cinema's Caesar and 21st century debates about American empire.