"Caesar's Legacy recounts the rise to power of Rome's first emperor, Augustus, by focusing on how the bloody civil wars which he and his soldiers fought transformed the lives of men and women throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond. The volume demonstrates how, during this…
Unsere wichtigste Quelle für die Militärgeschichte der römischen Republik ist der augusteische Geschichtsschreiber T. Livius, von dessen Werk 'ab urbe condita" die Bücher XXI bis XLV für die Zeit des 2. Punischen Krieges (218-201 v. Chr.) bis zum Ende des 3. Makedonischen Kriege…
The year 59 BC—when Gaius Julius Caesar and Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus served as joint consuls—marked a major turning point in the history of the Roman Republic. It was a dramatic and momentous time of political intrigue, bloodshed, and murder, one that boasted some of the most f…