Caesar and Roman Politics 60-50 BC

Name: Caesar and Roman Politics 60-50 BC
Brand: Bloomsbury 3PL
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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 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.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 224
Release Date:: 1991-06-01
Publication Date:: 2013-04-01
Publisher:: Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0906515947
ISBN13:: 9780906515945
Weight:: 288 g
Height:: 140 cm
Width:: 216 cm
Thickness:: 12 cm

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