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Caesar: Life of a Colossus |  | Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Publisher: Yale University Press Category: Book
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Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published) Media: Paperback Pages: 608 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5 Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.6
ISBN: 0300126891 EAN: 9780300126891 ASIN: 0300126891
Publication Date: January 28, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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.
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