Caesar and Roman Politics, 60-50 B.C.
by James Sabben-Clare
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Roman political history of the first century BC offers an almost embarrassing wealth of source material -- the contemporary testimony of Caesar and Cicero, the full derivative accounts of Appian and Dio, the biographies of Suetonius and Plutarch, to name but a few. This selection, of some 400 extracts from over twenty authors, presents in English translation a fair selection of those sources concentrating on Caesar around the mid-century. The passages are arranged thematically rather than show more chronologically, and introductions and interpolation guide the student through the material. This is an ideal book to encourage a student to form opinions -- and criticise those of others -- about the achievements of Julius Caesar in the dying Republic's crucial years, 60-50 BC. Using his own translations throughout, James Sabben-Clare here weaves together four hundred excerpts from twenty classical sources plus inscriptions and late authors such as Jordanes to capture the critical decade 60-50 BC. The book captures the intense vitality of the source material, moving in steady chronological progression to produce a rich portrayal of the complex political scene. show lessTags
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- History, Nonfiction, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
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- 937.05 — History & geography History of ancient world (to ca. 499) Italian Peninsula to 476 and adjacent territories to 476 Period of civil strife, 146-31 B.C.
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- DG262 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania City History of Italy Ancient Italy. Rome to 476 History By period Kings and Republic, 753-27 B.C. Republic, 509-27 Fall of the Republic and establishment Julius Caesar. First Triumvirate, 60
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