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    The Civil War

    The Civil War

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    by Julius Caesar


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      ISBN-13: 9780141910635
    • Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
    • Publication date: 02/05/2004
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 368
    • Sales rank: 353,806
    • File size: 709 KB

    Gaius Julius Caesar was born in 100BC into an ancient patrician family. He was imprisoned for a time with his familly, for protesting against the then leadership of Sulla, but advanced slowly through the sixties rising to the rank of praetor and forming the 'first triumvirate' with Pompey and Crassus. Elected consul in 59BC, he then became Governor for Transalpine Gaul. After the death of Crassus and the defeat of Pompey in 45BC, Caesar returned to Rome as dictator. He was assassinated in March 44BC.

    Jane Gardner received degrees in Classics from Glasgow and Oxford Universities and was Senior Lecturer in Classics at Reading University. She is the author of, among others, Women in Roman Law and Society and The Roman Household: A Sourcebook.

    Table of Contents

    The Civil WarIntroduction
    Historical background
    Caesar - the man and his aims
    The Civil War and the continuations

    Bibliographical Note

    Translator's Note

    Caesar: The Civil War

    Part I: The Struggle Begins
    1. Intransigence at Rome
    2. Caesar reacts
    3. The Seige of Corfinium
    4. Pompey leaves Italy
    5. Caesar's Senate
    6. Resistance at Massilia
    7. The First Spanish campaign - Ilerda
    8. A naval fight at Massilia
    9. Spain - a war of attrition
    10. The Pompeians capitulate

    Part II: Securing the West
    1. The Seige of Massilia
    2. Spain - the surrender of Varro
    3. Massilia capitulates
    4. Africa - Curio's campaign
    5. Curio's last stand

    Part III: The Great Confrontation
    1. Caesar in Italy - Pompey's preparations
    2. Negotiations in Epirus
    3. Trouble in Italy
    4. Antony runs the gauntlet
    5. The Lieutenants in Macedon
    6. Stalemate at Dyrrachium
    7. Setbacks for Caesar
    8. Caesar moves to Thessaly
    9. Pompey follows
    10. The battle of Pharsalus
    11. The death of Peompey
    12. Caesar at Alexandria

    The Alexandrian War

    I. Events in Egypt

    1. Miltary preparations
    2. The water supply poisoned
    3. Naval engagements
    4. The last stages

    II. Events in Asia

    III. Events in Illyricum

    IV. Events in Spain

    V. Caesar Chastens Pharnaces: Zela

    The African War
    1. Initail landings in Africa
    2. Waiting at Ruspina
    3. Consolidation
    4. Caesar takes the offense
    5. The Pompeians lose the initiative
    6. Thapsus
    7. The settlement of Africa

    The Spanish War
    1. Caesar pursues the Pompeians
    2. The victory of Munda
    3. 'Mopping-up'

    Notes
    The Civil War
    The Alexandrain
    The African War
    The Spanish War

    Appendixes
    I. The Text
    II. The Ultimate Decree
    III. Pharsalus
    IV. Chronological Outline of the Careers of Pompey and Caesar

    Glossary or Persons and Places

    Index of Maps

    Maps and Sketch-Plans

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    A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with incomparable immediacy and power. The Civil War is a tense and gripping depiction of his struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican Rome - a conflict that spanned the entire Roman world, from Gaul and Spain to Asia and Africa. Where Caesar's own account leaves off in 48 BC, his lieutenants take up the history, describing the vital battles of Munda, Spain and Thapsus, and the installation of Cleopatra, later Caesar's mistress, as Queen of Egypt. Together these narratives paint a full picture of the events that brought Caesar supreme power - and paved the way for his assassination only months later.

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