Robert Morstein-Marx

Julius Caesar and the Roman People

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reinterprets Julius Caesar not as an autocrat seeking to overthrow the Roman Republic, but as an unusually successful political leader.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 702
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 165mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 615g
• ISBN-13: 9781108932080
• ISBN-10: 1108932088
• Artikelnr.: 69073650

Autorenporträt

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