Julius Caesar in Egypt: Cleopatra & the War in Alexandria

"Exceptionally informative . . . a history of Julius Caesar and Ancient Rome that reads with all the narrative style of a finely honed novel." —Midwest Book Review

In forty-eight BC the armies of Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great fought a decisive battle at Pharsalus in Greece. Pompey was comprehensively defeated and fled to the last power in the Mediterranean world that was independent of Rome, Ptolemaic Egypt. Caesar pursued Pompey and was presented with his severed head, which the Egypti...