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Caesar : Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy (2008, Perfect)
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300126891
ISBN-13
9780300126891
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60066875
Product Key Features
Book Title
Caesar : Life of a Colossus
Number of Pages
608 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Ancient / Rome, General
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
27.3 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Adrian Goldsworthy is one of the new generation of young classicists who combine scholarship with storytelling to bring the ancient world to life. In his masterly new "Caesar," he shows us the greatest Roman as man, statesman, soldier, and lover."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar", "It gives me great pleasure to give Caesar the strongest possible recommendation. Caesar was a complex character living in confusing times, but Adrian Goldsworthy tackles the subject with a vigor, thoroughness and clarity of purpose that the great man himself would have approved of."--Philip Sidnell, Editor, Ancient and Medieval History Book Club (London) "Goldsworthy's book will remain the definitive biography of Caesar for years to come."--Philip Matyszak, author of The Sons of Caesar: Imperial Rome's First Dynasty "Adrian Goldsworthy is one of our most promising young military historians today."--Sir John Keegan, author of The Iraq War "Adrian Goldsworthy is one of the new generation of young classicists who combine scholarship with storytelling to bring the ancient world to life. In his masterly new Caesar , he shows us the greatest Roman as man, statesman, soldier, and lover."--Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar " Caesar is an accessible, balanced, and highly readable contribution to our understanding of one of Rome's most complex characters. No one writing in English today knows more about Roman military history than Adrian Goldsworthy."--Guy MacLean Rogers, author of Alexander: The Ambiguity of Greatness, "It gives me great pleasure to give "Caesar" the strongest possible recommendation. Caesar was a complex character living in confusing times, but Adrian Goldsworthy tackles the subject with a vigor, thoroughness and clarity of purpose that the great man himself would have approved of."-Philip Sidnell, Editor, Ancient and Medieval History Book Club (London)
Dewey Decimal
937/.05092 B
Synopsis
Named 2006 Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com "An authoritative and exciting portrait not only of Caesar but of the complex society in which he lived."--Steven Coates, New York Times Book Review "The best introduction to Caesar and his world that is currently available."--Karl Galinsky, Bookforum Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor's life, Goldsworthy covers not only the great Roman emperor's accomplishments as charismatic orator, conquering general, and powerful dictator but also lesser-known chapters during which he was high priest of an exotic cult, captive of pirates, seducer not only of Cleopatra but also of the wives of his two main political rivals, and rebel condemned by his own country. Ultimately, Goldsworthy realizes the full complexity of Caesar's character and shows why his political and military leadership continues to resonate some two thousand years later. In the introduction to his biography of the great Roman emperor, Adrian Goldsworthy writes, "Caesar was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator . . . as well as husband, father, lover and adulterer." In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as military leader, all of these roles and places his subject firmly within the context of Roman society in the first century B.C., As Adrian Goldsworthy writes in the introduction to this book, "in his fifty-six years, Caesar was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator . . . as well as husband, father, lover and adulterer." In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines all of these roles and places his subject firmly within the context of Roman society in the first century B.C. Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of Caesar's life from birth through assassination, Goldsworthy covers not only Caesar's accomplishments as charismatic orator, conquering general, and powerful dictator but also lesser-known chapters during which he was high priest of an exotic cult, captive of pirates, seducer not only of Cleopatra but also of the wives of his two main political rivals, and rebel condemned by his own country. Ultimately, Goldsworthy realizes the full complexity of Caesar's character and shows why his political and military leadership continues to resonate some two thousand years later., In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy places Caesar firmly within the context of Roman society in the first century B.C., The first major biography of Julius Caesar in decades, this volume offers an astonishingly intimate and complex view of the life of this singular leader Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor's life, Goldsworthy covers not only the great Roman emperor's accomplishments as charismatic orator, conquering general, and powerful dictator but also lesser-known chapters during which he was high priest of an exotic cult, captive of pirates, seducer not only of Cleopatra but also of the wives of his two main political rivals, and rebel condemned by his own country. Ultimately, Goldsworthy realizes the full complexity of Caesar's character and shows why his political and military leadership continues to resonate some two thousand years later. In the introduction to his biography of the great Roman emperor, Adrian Goldsworthy writes, "Caesar was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator . . . as well as husband, father, lover and adulterer." In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as military leader, all of these roles and places his subject firmly within the context of Roman society in the first century B.C.
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