1st Edition

Caesar's Gallic Wars 58-50 BC

By K. M. Gilliver Copyright 2003
98 Pages
by Routledge

96 Pages
by Routledge

Julius Caesar was one of the most ambitious and successful politicians of the late Roman Republic, and his short but bloody conquest of the Celtic tribes led to the establishment of the Roman province of Gaul (modern France). Caesar's commentaries on his Gallic Wars provide us with the most detailed surviving eyewitness account of a campaign from antiquity. In this book, Kate Gilliver makes use of... Read more
Introduction and Chronology; Background to War; Warring Sides; Outbreak; The Fighting; Portrait of a soldier; The Wider Context; Portait of a cvivilian; How the war ended; Conclusion and consequences

Biography

K. M. Gilliver