Julius Caesar and the Roman People

Reinterprets Julius Caesar not as an autocrat seeking to overthrow the Roman Republic, but as an unusually successful political leader.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The Early Caesar; 3. Caesar's 'Entry into History': The Catilinarian Debate and Its Aftermath; 4. Caesar's First Consulship; 5. Caesar in Gaul: The View from Rome; 6. No Return: Caesar's Dignitas and the Coming of the Civil War; 7. Taking Sides; 8. Caesar's Leniency; 9. En route to the Parthian War; 10. Conclusion

About the author

Robert Morstein-Marx is a Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic (Cambridge, 2004), Hegemony to Empire: The Development of the Roman Imperium in the East, 148-62 B.C. (1995), and co-editor of A Companion to the Roman Republic (2006).

Product details

• Authors: Robert Morstein-Marx, Robert (University of California Morstein-Marx, Morstein-Marx Robert
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.12.2023
• EAN: 9781108932080
• ISBN: 978-1-108-93208-0
• No. of pages: 702
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Rome, Classical history / classical civilisation, European history: the Romans