Caesar Versus Pompey: Determining Rome’s Greatest General, Statesman & Nation-Builder - Brossura

Dando-Collins, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 1684428955 ISBN 13: 9781684428953

Casa editrice: Turner Pub Co, 2024

Riassunto

Who was Rome’s greatest general, statesman, and nation-builder:Caesar or Pompey?

Few people have had as many words written about them down throughthe centuries as Julius Caesar—the brilliant general who made Queen Cleopatraof Egypt his mistress. He has captured the imagination of playwrights,historians, soldiers, and emperors.

Little has been written about his ally, son-in-law, and eventualenemy Pompey the Great, who crashed onto the Roman scene as a victorioustwenty-three-year-old general and who, at the height of his career, was arguablymore famous, more popular, and more successful than Caesar.

Caesar Versus Pompey tells the parallel life stories ofJulius Caesar and Pompey the Great, as their lives and loves became intertwined andinterdependent, as they grew from rivals to partners, then from joint rulers towarring foes. One strove to preserve the Roman Republic, the other destroyedit.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Stephen Dando-Collins is the multi-award-winning author of forty-eight books, including biographies and nonfiction works on ancient Rome, Greece, and Persia, as well as American, British, French, and Australian history including World War I and World War II. These works focus on military history, with Stephen considered an authority on the legions of imperial Rome. He has also written several successful novels and children’s novels. His books are widely published in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and they appear in translation in Spain, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, Albania, Russia, Korea, and Latin America.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Turner Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1684428955
• ISBN 13: 9781684428953
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 283
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