Caesar / Christian Meier ; translated from the German by David McLintock.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: New York : BasicBooks/HarperCollins, [1995]Description: 513 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0465008941
  • 9780465008940
Uniform titles:
  • Caesar. English
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Caesar.LOC classification:
  • DG 261 .M 3713 1995
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Caesar and Rome: Two Realities -- 2. Caesar's Fascination -- 3. Crisis and Outsiders -- 4. Birth and Family -- 5. Youth in Rome -- 6. The Second Decade: Experience of the Civil War and First Commitment -- 7. The First Test: the Experience of Rome in the Decade after the Restoration (78-70 BC) -- 8. The Political Rise of the Outsider (69 to 60 BC) -- 9. Crisis and Tensions: Cato's Authority, Pompey's Difficulty, Caesar's Problem -- 10. The Consulship (59 BC) -- 11. Achievement in Gaul -- 12. The Process of the Crisis without Alternative, Caesar's Right to the Civil War, his Greatness -- 13. The Civil War (49-46 BC) -- 14. Failure after Victory.
Summary: For centuries, Julius Caesar has endured in our collective imagination as a favorite among historians and scholars, playwrights and poets. In legend he lives as the great conqueror of Rome's immense empire, a remarkable diplomat and writer, an unrivaled heartbreaker, and a man of relentless determination who met a seemingly tragic end.
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Originally published: United Kingdom : HarperCollins, 1995.

Translation of the 3rd German pbk. ed.

Includes index.

1. Caesar and Rome: Two Realities -- 2. Caesar's Fascination -- 3. Crisis and Outsiders -- 4. Birth and Family -- 5. Youth in Rome -- 6. The Second Decade: Experience of the Civil War and First Commitment -- 7. The First Test: the Experience of Rome in the Decade after the Restoration (78-70 BC) -- 8. The Political Rise of the Outsider (69 to 60 BC) -- 9. Crisis and Tensions: Cato's Authority, Pompey's Difficulty, Caesar's Problem -- 10. The Consulship (59 BC) -- 11. Achievement in Gaul -- 12. The Process of the Crisis without Alternative, Caesar's Right to the Civil War, his Greatness -- 13. The Civil War (49-46 BC) -- 14. Failure after Victory.

For centuries, Julius Caesar has endured in our collective imagination as a favorite among historians and scholars, playwrights and poets. In legend he lives as the great conqueror of Rome's immense empire, a remarkable diplomat and writer, an unrivaled heartbreaker, and a man of relentless determination who met a seemingly tragic end.

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