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Top Ten Books on Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar has cast a shadow over western history for two millennia. He was a remarkable general, a people's champion, the destroyer of the Roman Republic and the creator of the Roman Empire.
Adrian goldsworthy, caesar
Each of these books not only try to tell Caesar's story but attempt to understand his impact on the world.
Goldsworthy, Adrian, Caesar: Life of a Colossus (Yale University Press, 2008)
In the introduction to his biography of the great Roman emperor, Adrian Goldsworthy writes, “Caesar was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator .
. . as well as husband, father, lover, and adulterer.” In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as a military leader, all of these roles and places his subject firmly within the context of Roman society in the first century B.C.
"Adrian Goldsworthy is one of our most promising young military historians today."—Sir John K