Caesar: The Gallic War & The Civil War

Cover: 9788028338794 | The Gallic War & The Civil War | Caesar | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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The Gallic War & The Civil War brings together Julius Caesar's two great prose accounts of conquest and crisis: the campaigns in Gaul and the struggle against Pompey and the senatorial party. Written in a famously lucid, economical Latin style, these commentaries combine military dispatch, political self-justification, ethnographic observation, and dramatic narrative. Their apparent plainness is artful: Caesar's third-person voice projects objectivity while shaping events into a persuasive record of command, discipline, and destiny at the end of the Roman Republic. Caesar was not merely a writer reflecting on war from a distance, but its central actor: general, politician, and ultimately dictator. His literary achievement is inseparable from his public career. The Gallic campaigns enlarged his prestige, wealth, and army; the civil conflict arose from the political consequences of that power. These works therefore reveal both the strategic intelligence of a commander and the rhetorical instincts of a statesman defending his choices before Rome and posterity. This volume is essential for readers interested in classical history, military literature, political rhetoric, or the transformation of republican Rome into imperial rule. It rewards close reading as both historical testimony and crafted propaganda.

Genre:	Geschichte
Jahrhundert:	Altertum
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788028338794
ISBN-10:	8028338798
Sprache:	Englisch
Autor:	Caesar
Übersetzung:	McDevitte, W. A. Bohn, W. S.
Hersteller:	Sharp Ink
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Maße:	229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Caesar
Gewicht:	0,512 kg