Faced with the intransigence of the Senate, Caesar and the 13th Legion cross the Rubicon, the official border between Gaul and Italy, a decision that will lead to civil war. 49 B.C. As Caesar ...

New York & Oxford: Osprey Bloomsbury, 2023. pp. 144. Illus., maps, chron., personae, biblio., index. $20.00 paper. ISBN: 1472855078 A Very Good Overview of the Roman ...

His prospects were bleak: Rome was dangerous, engulfed by civil war between power-hungry factions. One of these was led by his great-uncle, Julius Caesar. Then Augustus got a lucky break.

In addition to his military and political achievements, in his lifetime Caesar (100-44 B.C.) was a rather noted author and scholar, considered an outstanding stylist, producing works on the Latin ...