A thorough reconsideration of Julius Caesar's career throughout the crisis of the Roman Republic. Argues that Caesar was not an aspiring autocrat seeking to overthrow the Republic, but an unusually successful republican political leader against whom a determined opposition ultimately preferred to wage civil war rather than accept political defeat.
A thorough reconsideration of Julius Caesar's career throughout the crisis of the Roman Republic. Argues that Caesar was not an aspiring autocrat seeking to overthrow the Republic, but an unusually successful republican political leader against whom a determined opposition ultimately preferred to wage civil war rather than accept political defeat.
Robert Morstein-Marx is a Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic (Cambridge, 2004), Hegemony to Empire: The Development of the Roman Imperium in the East, 148-62 B.C. (1995), and co-editor of A Companion to the Roman Republic (2006).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction 2. The Early Caesar 3. Caesar's 'Entry into History': The Catilinarian Debate and Its Aftermath 4. Caesar's First Consulship 5. Caesar in Gaul: The View from Rome 6. No Return: Caesar's Dignitas and the Coming of the Civil War 7. Taking Sides 8. Caesar's Leniency 9. En route to the Parthian War 10. Conclusion
1. Introduction 2. The Early Caesar 3. Caesar's 'Entry into History': The Catilinarian Debate and Its Aftermath 4. Caesar's First Consulship 5. Caesar in Gaul: The View from Rome 6. No Return: Caesar's Dignitas and the Coming of the Civil War 7. Taking Sides 8. Caesar's Leniency 9. En route to the Parthian War 10. Conclusion
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