mgr Weronika Jaworska

ORCID: 0009-0006-5074-3947

The topic of my dissertation is: „Pars Caesariana. Prosopography of Caesar’s People”

The subject of my doctoral dissertation is the environment of Caesar's supporters in all its complexity. In the entourage of Caesar, we can find members of the nobilitas, equites, individuals from municipia, provinces, officers of various ranks, and others. For many of the individuals mentioned, Caesar offered conditions for rapid political, social, and economic advancement. Despite the extensive literature on the late Republic and Caesar himself, there has been no work to date that discusses the environment of the dictator in detail. Writing about Caesar's people has mainly been done in publications dedicated to Caesar's life, activities, and writings. The aim of my work is to fill this gap in historiography.

My dissertation consists of two parts: a catalog and an analytical-interpretive part. The primary source for the catalog part consists mainly of narrative sources enriched with numismatic, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence. I categorize Caesar's supporters based on various criteria, such as birth (patrician/plebeian), ethnic-geographic, legal, social, and career type, among others. The catalog will demonstrate the diversity of this faction while also establishing a solid foundation for the analytical-interpretive part.

The main task of the analytical-interpretive part is to create a picture of Caesar's environment based on the data from the catalog and knowledge of the era. I present the types of careers alongside Caesar and show how personal relationships developed between him and his political entourage. Recognizing the structure of Caesar's careers will allow us to observe specific phenomena related to this environment. The goal of the analytical-interpretive part is also to depict Caesar's faction in the dynamic political landscape of the late Republic, especially during the Second Civil War from 49-45 BCE, both in its function as his political support and as a full-fledged side of the conflict. It is worth noting that Caesar's environment survived his death, and the Civil War from 44-30 BCE reinvigorated the Caesar faction under the leadership of Antony and Octavian. It was the rule of Octavian Augustus that marked the end of the pars Caesariana as a useful political tool and integrated Caesar's supporters into the new elite circles alongside the emperor. The outlined specific objectives go hand in hand with the broader goal of gaining a better understanding of the political and social mechanisms of the late Republic.