- Publisher: Amberley
- Year: 2018
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 320pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 235x156mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.6kg
- ISBN: 9781445650456
- Product code: 504474
Julius Caesar
A Life
Patricia Southern New Hardback Illustrated
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Even during his lifetime, Julius Caesar was a legendary figure, not least because his own writings were designed to enhance his image. Southern’s biography sheds light on a clever, powerful man, who sometimes survived ‘by the skin of his teeth via a combination of determination, quick thinking, opportunism and, more often than not, a certain amount of luck’.
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Julius Caesar is part historical figure and part legend. He was a complex individual, a brilliant politician, a successful general, an accomplished psychologist. He grew up in a world where political and military careers were inextricably intertwined, and he excelled at both. In his youth he was considered vain and a little foppish, but showed nerves of steel when he defied the Dictator Sulla - and survived. Bending to someone's will was not in Caesar's make-up. He came late to a position of supreme power, and though his policies embraced pragmatic, sensible measures designed to solve the problems that beset the Republic, it was his dictatorial methods rather than his ideas which caused resentment.
Unfortunately, when his assassins killed him, hoping to liberate the state from what they saw as his tyranny, they had formulated no plans for the government of the Roman world. By murdering Caesar, the assassins provoked a prolonged series of civil wars, and the rise of Augustus, the all-powerful first Emperor, who took up where Caesar left off. In this new appraisal of his life, Patricia Southern sheds light on the man behind the legend.
Unfortunately, when his assassins killed him, hoping to liberate the state from what they saw as his tyranny, they had formulated no plans for the government of the Roman world. By murdering Caesar, the assassins provoked a prolonged series of civil wars, and the rise of Augustus, the all-powerful first Emperor, who took up where Caesar left off. In this new appraisal of his life, Patricia Southern sheds light on the man behind the legend.
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Even during his lifetime, Julius Caesar was a legendary figure, not least because his own writings were designed to enhance his image. Southern’s biography sheds light on a clever, powerful man, who sometimes survived ‘by the skin of his teeth via a combination of determination, quick thinking, opportunism and, more often than not, a certain amount of luck’.
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