Julius Caesar: pocket GIANTS

by T.P. Wiseman

Overview

Why is Caesar a giant? Because he effectively created the Roman Empire, and thus made possible the European civilization that grew out of it.As the People's champion against a corrupt and murderous oligarchy, he began transformation of the Roman republic into a quasi-monarchy and a military and fiscal system that for four centuries provided western Europe, north Africa and the Middle East with security, prosperity and relative peace.His conquest of Gaul and his successors' conquests of Germany, the Balkans and Britain created both the conditions for 'western culture' and many of the historic cities in which it has flourished.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750961318
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	11/09/2016
Series:	Pocket GIANTS
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

T. P. Wiseman is the author of The Myths of Rome, which won the American Philological Association’s Goodwin Aware of Merit.

Table of Contents

1 The People's Thing 7

2 Greed and Arrogance 15

3 A Young Man to Watch 25

4 The Ladder of Office 35

5 The Body Politic 47

6 To the Ocean and Beyond 57

7 Disasters 69

8 Civil War and Moral Philosophy 81

9 The Oath-Breakers 93

10 Hail, Caesar 107

Notes 115

Timeline 124

Further Reading 125

Digital Resources 127