Caesar: an extraordinary life -- The last years of the Roman Republic -- Caesar's family and early life, 100-83 BC -- Early career, 83-69 BC -- Senator , 69-63 BC -- Praetor and Propraetor, 62-60 BC -- Consul, 59 BC -- Caesar, the Gauls, and the Roman Army, 58-50 BC -- Gaul and Britain, 58-50 BC -- The road to war, 58-50 BC -- Escalation: the outbreak of the Civil War, 50-48 BC -- The Civil War, 48-47 BC -- Africa and Spain, 47-45 BC -- Finale, 45-44 BC.
Summary:
"Julius Caesar is part historical figure and part legend. He was a complex individual, a most brilliant politician, a most successful general, a most 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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