Caesar's Gallic Wars 58-50 BC / Edition 1

by K. M. Gilliver

Overview

Julius Caesar was one of the most ambitious and successful politicians of the late Roman Republic, and his short but bloody conquest of the Celtic tribes led to the establishment of the Roman province of Gaul (modern France). Caesar's commentaries on his Gallic Wars provide us with the most detailed surviving eyewitness account of a campaign from antiquity. In this book, Kate Gilliver makes use of this firsthand account and other surviving evidence to consider the importance of the Gallic Wars in the context of the collapse of the Roman Republic and its slide toward civil war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415968584
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/01/2003
Series:	Essential Histories
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	98
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction and Chronology; Background to War; Warring Sides; Outbreak; The Fighting; Portrait of a soldier; The Wider Context; Portait of a cvivilian; How the war ended; Conclusion and consequences