Julius Caesar’s Campaign Book. The Roman general wrote ‘The Gallic Wars’ to bolster his claim to power—and launched a genre that’s still with us today. By . Barry Strauss. Share.

THE IDES OF MARCH (246 pp.)—Thornton Wilder—Harper ($2.75). Suppose that, after the death of Caesar, some industrious private investigator assembled all the relevant documents on the murder ...

Philip Freeman's 2009 book reveals in great detail "a biography of the cunning Roman conqueror Julius Caesar." This History Channel video describes how Julius Caesar sparked civil war. Bibliography ...

Alas for history, little of Caesar’s work survives (see The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar). What we do have, however, is important, the fourteen “books” of war commentaries; ...

FREEDOM, FAREWELL!—Phyllis Bentley —Macmillan ($2.50). HAIL, CAESAR!—Fletcher Pratt—Smith & Haas ($3.50). With the same workmanlike technique she used in her novels of Yorkshire mill-towns ...

One of the greatest figures in Roman history, Gaius Julius Caesar has been popularised time and again across various works of art and literature. Such was the popularity of the military figure ...

EXCLUSIVE: Move over, Katniss. Lionsgate‘s Summit Entertainment has found its next franchise hero: Julius Caesar. The company, whose franchise fare has included Twilight Saga, The Hunger Games ...

Julius Caesar, an accomplished military general and cunning politician, is perhaps remembered as one of the most consequential figures who rose to power during the Roman Republic – and led to ...

The book critiqued previous theories of Caesar's murd… Mr. Parenti talked about his book, [The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome], published by The New Press.

It certainly was meant to be Julius Caesar, ... It will be the face of Caesar for a few decades and will decorate any number of glossy book jackets. Indeed, it may be him.