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Julius Caesar and the Roman People by Robert Morstein-Marx (2023, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101108932088

ISBN-139781108932080

eBay Product ID (ePID)2336607517

Product Key Features

Number of Pages702 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameJulius Caesar and the Roman People

SubjectAncient / General, Europe / Italy

Publication Year2023

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaHistory

AuthorRobert Morstein-Marx

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal937.05

Table Of Content1. Introduction; 2. The Early Caesar; 3. Caesar's 'Entry into History': The Catilinarian Debate and Its Aftermath; 4. Caesar's First Consulship; 5. Caesar in Gaul: The View from Rome; 6. No Return: Caesar's Dignitas and the Coming of the Civil War; 7. Taking Sides; 8. Caesar's Leniency; 9. En route to the Parthian War; 10. Conclusion

SynopsisJulius Caesar was no aspiring autocrat seeking to realize the imperial future but an unusually successful republican leader who was measured against the Republic's traditions and its greatest heroes of the past. Catastrophe befell Rome not because Caesar (or anyone else) turned against the Republic, its norms and institutions, but because Caesar's extraordinary success mobilized a determined opposition which ultimately preferred to precipitate civil war rather than accept its political defeat. Based on painstaking re-analysis of the ancient sources in the light of recent advances in our understanding of the participatory role of the People in the republican political system, a strong emphasis on agents' choices rather than structural causation, and profound scepticism toward the facile determinism that often substitutes for historical explanation, this book offers a radical reinterpretation of a figure of profound historical importance who stands at the turning point of Roman history from Republic to Empire., A thorough reconsideration of Julius Caesar's career throughout the crisis of the Roman Republic. Argues that Caesar was not an aspiring autocrat seeking to overthrow the Republic, but an unusually successful republican political leader against whom a determined opposition ultimately preferred to wage civil war rather than accept political defeat.

LC Classification NumberDG261.M67 2023