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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jiménez, Ramon L. Caesar against Rome. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000 (OCoLC)607447029 Online version: Jiménez, Ramon L. Caesar against Rome. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000 (OCoLC)608645767 |
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| Named Person: | Julius Caesar |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ramon L Jiménez |
| ISBN: | 0275966208 9780275966201 |
| OCLC Number: | 41662542 |
| Description: | xiv, 282 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The Rise of Caesar -- Prologue: Three Men -- Sulla Against Caesar -- Rome and Its Neighbors -- Pompey and Cicero Conquer Rome -- The Road to Gaul and Back -- Caesar and Pompey -- Across the Rubicon -- The First Spanish Campaign -- The Siege of Massilia -- Curio in Africa -- The Campaign in Macedonia -- The Battle of Pharsalus -- Caesar and Cleopatra -- The Alexandrian War -- Veni, Vidi, Vici -- The Last Campaign -- The Ides of March -- Epilogue: Cicero. |
| Responsibility: | Ramon L. Jiménez. |
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"Jimenez's narrative of the civil wars that ended the Roman Republic will be welcome alike to specialists and general readers. His well-organized chapters integrate state-of-the-art descriptions of the Roman way of war into clearly written accounts of sieges, skirmishes, and pitched battles on land and sea. Above all, however, this book tells the story of a man simultaneously a master of civil war's tactics and a failure at its policy levels....Pragmatism and public relations skills made him a formidable politician. Yet despite--or perhaps because of--these great gifts, Caesar failed to develop and articulate an idea of what should become of Rome....Rome might no longer be a republic, but it remained a society of law--not whim."-Dennis Showalter Department of History Colorado College Read more...
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