Julius Caesar: The Colossus of Rome 9780415692601, 0415692601

Julius Caesar offers a lively, engaging, and thoroughly up-to-date account of Caesar’s life and times. The book is not j

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Julius Caesar: The Colossus of Rome
 9780415692601, 0415692601

Table of contents :
Content: Rome and Italy in the second century BCE --
Caesar's childhood : the Social War and the Sullan Civil War --
Caesar's early manhood : the rise of Pompeius --
Roman politics in the 60s --
Long year 59 BCE --
Conquest of Gaul --
Roman politics in the 50s --
Caesar's place in Roman literature and culture --
Civil wars against Pompeius and the Optimates --
Caesar the dictator.

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