Preface

The Representation of History in Artistic Theory in the Early Modern Period

Anton Boschloo

Universals and Particulars. History Painting in the ``Sala di Costantino'' in the Vatican Palace

Jan L. De Jong

Theatrum Hodiernae Vitae: Lipsius, Vaenius and the Rebellion of Civilis

Mark Morford

Strange and Bewildering Antiquity: Lipsius's Dialogue Saturnales sermones on Gladiatorial Games (1582)

Karl Enenkel

Justus Lipsius's De militia Romana: Polybius Revived or How an Ancient Historian was Turned into a Manual of Early Modern Warfare

Jeanine De Landtsheer

``The Grandeur that was Rome'': Scholarly Analysis and Pious Awe in Lipsius's Admiranda

Marc Laureys

Civic Self-Offering: Some Renaissance Representations of Marcus Curtius

Maria Berbara

Montaigne, Plutarch and Historiography

Paul J. Smith

Plutarch's Lives and Coriolanus: Shakespeare's View of Roman History

Bart Westerweel

The Reception of Plutarch in the Netherlands: Octavia and Cleopatra in the Heroic Epistles of J.B. Wellekens (1710)

Olga Van Marion

The Reception of Plutarch in Friedrich Schiller's Lectures on Solon and Lycurgus's Legislation

Sjaak Onderdelinden

Marc Anton ironisch? Zu Form und Erfindung seiner Leichenrede in Shakespeares Julius Caesar

Wilfried Stroh

The Uses of Ancient History in the Emblems of Joannes Sambucus (1531--1584)

Arnoud Visser

The Emperor Hadrian as an Artist in Karel van Mander's Schilder-boeck

Francesca Terrenato

Tyrant or Stoic Hero? Marc-Antoine Muret's Julius Caesar

Jan Bloemendal

Caesar the Father in Marie-Anne Barbier's La mort de Cesar (1709)

Alicia Montoya

The Dutch Republic between Hauteur and Greed --- Lambert van den Bosch and his Drama L. Catilina

Bettina Noak

List of Illustrations

Index

List of Contributors