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Julius Caesar: The Life and Times of the People's Dictator

Julius Caesar: The Life and Times of the People's Dictator

Canfora, Luciano
Hill, Marian
Windle, Kevin

Hardcover

Historical FiguresAncient Rome

Publisher Price: $46.95

ISBN10: 0520235029
ISBN13: 9780520235021
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Apr 16 2007
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.62
Height: 1.09 Width: 6.46 Depth: 9.47
Language: English
In this splendid profile, Luciano Canfora offers a radically new interpretation of one of the most controversial figures in history. Julius Caesar played a leading role in the culture and politics of a world empire, dwarfing his contemporaries in ambition, achievement, and appetite. For that, he has occupied a central place in the political imagination ever since. Yet Caesar, struck down by his own lieutenants because he could not be comprehended nor contained, remains an enigma. The result of a comprehensive study of the ancient sources, Julius Caesar: The Life and Times of the People's Dictator paints an astonishingly detailed portrait of this complex man and the times in which he lived. Based on his many years of research, Canfora focuses on what we actually know about Caesar, the man of politics and war, in a stylish, engaging narrative chronologically structured around the events in Caesar's life. The result is a rich, revelatory, full biographical portrait of the dictator whose mission of Romanization lies at the very heart of modern Europe.

Copub: Edinburgh University Press

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