Julius Caesar: The Colossus of Rome (Roman Imperial Biographies) - Image 1

£41.33

Routledge Julius Caesar: The Colossus of Rome (Roman Imperial Biographies)

Name: Julius Caesar: The Colossus of Rome (Roman Imperial Biographies)
Brand: Routledge
Price: 39.99 GBP
Availability: InStock

Social & Urban History

Price History & Forecast

Last 75 days • 75 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 75 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £40 (49 days, 65.3%)

Price range: £40 - £41

Price levels: 3 different prices over 75 days

Description

Julius Caesar offers a lively, engaging, and thoroughly up-to-date account of Caesar’s life and times. Richard Billows’ dynamic and fast paced narrative offers an imaginative recounting of actions and events, providing the ideal introduction to Julius Caesar for general readers and students of classics and ancient history. The book is not just a biography of Caesar, but an historical account and explanation of the decline and fall of the Roman Republican governing system, in which Caesar played a crucial part. To understand Caesar’s life and role, it is necessary to grasp the political, social and economic problems Rome was grappling with, and the deep divisions within Roman society that came from them. Caesar has been seen variously as a mere opportunist, a power-hungry autocrat, an arrogant aristocrat disdaining rivals, a traditional Roman noble politician who stumbled into civil war and autocracy thanks to being misunderstood by his rivals, and even as the ideal man and pattern of all virtues. Richard A. Billows argues that such portrayals fail to consider the universal testimony of our ancient sources that Roman political life was divided in Caesar’s time into two great political tendencies, called "optimates" and "populares" in the sources, of which Caesar came to be the leader of one: the "popularis" faction. Billows suggests that it is only when we see Caesar as the leader of a great political and social movement, that had been struggling with its rival movement for decades and had been several times violently repressed in the course of that struggle, that we can understand how and why Caesar came to fight and win a civil war, and bring the traditional governing system of Rome to an end.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0415692601
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Historical > Social & Urban History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 18 August 2011
Listed Since: 22 June 2011

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Julius Caesar: The Colossus of Rome (Roman Imperial Biographies)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Julius Caesar: The Colossus of Rome (Roman Imperial Biographies)

C. Sallusti Crispi Historiae: I: Fragmenta 1.1-146: 51 (Texte Und Kommentare)

Julius Caesar: A Guide to the Play (Greenwood Guides to Shakespeare)

Cicero, Politics, and the 21st Century

The Governance of ROME

The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume 8

Julian and Christianity: Revisiting the Constantinian Revolution

Cicero and the Catilinarian Conspiracy (Routledge Studies in Ancient History)

Reading Cicero’s Final Years: Receptions of the Post-Caesarian Works up to the Sixteenth Century – with two Epilogues: 3 (CICERO, 3)

Pompeis Difficile Est: Studies in the Political Life of Imperial Pompeii

Culture and Society in Lucian

After 69 CE - Writing Civil War in Flavian Rome: 65 (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 65)

Religion and Memory in Tacitus' Annals (Oxford Classical Monographs)

Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire

>Suétone Narrateur: Biographie Und Erzählung in >De Vita Caesarum: 106 (Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies)

Justin, Abrege Des Histoires Philippiques de Trogue Pompee: Tome II: Livres XI - XXIII: 418 (Bude Justin)

Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham

A Map of the Body, a Map of the Mind: Visualising Geographical Knowledge in the Roman World (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology)

Voltaire’s "La Mort de César": A Play "Entirely in the English Taste"?: 26 (Comparatisme et Societe/Comparatism and Society)

Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire

The Mithraeum at Caesarea Maritima (ASOR Archaeological Reports): The Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima Excavation Reports Vol II: 25

Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914

Virgil's Aeneid: A Reader's Guide

Francois Mitterrand: A Study in Political Leadership