"In his Commentarii de Bello Civili Julius Caesar sought to re-invent his image and appear before his present and future readers in a way which he could control and at times manipulate. Offering a new interpretation of the Bellum Civile this book reveals the intricate literary w…
"An outstanding new edition of Plutarch, the inventor of biography, focused on five lives that remade the Roman world. Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names still resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republ…
"At the end of the Republic, religious, legal, and literary knowledge began to take the form of a 'Roman heritage', as broadly defined as it was indefinite. Caesar, like Cicero, thought that language, along with political institutions and laws, constituted the fundamental featur…
LANDMARK JULIUS CAESAR: the complete works
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…
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…
"This book tells the story of one of the most colorful dynasties in history. It reviews the rise of the Julian and Claudian families in the Republic and the social and political background of Rome, but at its heart are the lives of six men - Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Ga…
"This book tells the story of one of the most colorful dynasties in history. It reviews the rise of the Julian and Claudian families in the Republic and the social and political background of Rome, but at its heart are the lives of six men - Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Ga…