1st Edition

Julius Caesar The Colossus of Rome

By Richard A. Billows Copyright 2009
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

336 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Prologue  1. Rome and Italy in the 2nd century BCE  2. Caesar's childhood: the Social War and the Sullan Civil War  3. Caesar’s early manhood: the rise of Pompeius  4. Roman  politics in the sixties  5. The long year 59 BCE  6. The conquest of Gaul  7. Roman politics in the fifties  8. Caesar’s place in Roman literature and culture  9. The Civil Wars against Pompeius and the Optimates  10. Caesar the Dictator  Epilogue

Biography

Richard A. Billows