Julius Caesar: The Colossus of Rome - Rilegato

Libro 12 di 22: Roman Imperial Biographies

Billows, Richard A.

 
9780415333146: Julius Caesar: The Colossus of Rome
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ISBN 10: 0415333148 ISBN 13: 9780415333146
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2008

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Julius Caesar offers a lively, engaging, and thoroughly up-to-date account of Caesar’s life and times. Richard Billows’ dynamic and fast paced narrative offers an imaginative recounting of actions and events, providing the ideal introduction to Julius Caesar for general readers and students of classics and ancient history.

The book is not just a biography of Caesar, but an historical account and explanation of the decline and fall of the Roman Republican governing system, in which Caesar played a crucial part. To understand Caesar’s life and role, it is necessary to grasp the political, social and economic problems Rome was grappling with, and the deep divisions within Roman society that came from them. Caesar has been seen variously as a mere opportunist, a power-hungry autocrat, an arrogant aristocrat disdaining rivals, a traditional Roman noble politician who stumbled into civil war and autocracy thanks to being misunderstood by his rivals, and even as the ideal man and pattern of all virtues. Richard A. Billows argues that such portrayals fail to consider the universal testimony of our ancient sources that Roman political life was divided in Caesar’s time into two great political tendencies, called "optimates" and "populares" in the sources, of which Caesar came to be the leader of one: the "popularis" faction.

Billows suggests that it is only when we see Caesar as the leader of a great political and social movement, that had been struggling with its rival movement for decades and had been several times violently repressed in the course of that struggle, that we can understand how and why Caesar came to fight and win a civil war, and bring the traditional governing system of Rome to an end.

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Richard A. Billows

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0415333148
ISBN 13 
9780415333146
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
336
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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Hamburg
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ISBN 10:  0415692601 ISBN 13:  9780415692601
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