Caesar A Biography

by Meier, Christian

• ISBN13: 9780465008957
• ISBN10: 046500895X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-31
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

As politician and diplomat, writer and lover, but above all as a military genius, Julius Caesar is one of the perennially fascinating figures in historyBoswell called him "the greatest man of any age." Christian Meier's authoritative and accessible biography is the definitive modern account of Caesar's life and career, setting Caesar's life story against the rich political and social background of the Late Roman Republic.

Author Biography

Christian Meier is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Munich. He is one of Europe’s leading authorities on the Late Roman Republic and is the author of The Greek Discovery of Politics and The Political Art of Greek Tragedy.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Caesar and Rome: Two Realities	1	(14)
Caesar's Fascination	15	(11)
Crisis and Outsiders	26	(25)
Birth and Family	51	(5)
Youth in Rome	56	(17)
Education	56	(11)
Freedom for the Young	67	(6)
The Second Decade: Experience of the Civil War and First Commitment	73	(26)
The First Test: the Experience of Rome in the Decade after the Restoration (78-70 BC)	99	(34)
The Political Rise of the Outsider (69 to 60 BC)	133	(57)
Crisis and Tensions: Cato's Authority, Pompey's Difficulty, Caesar's Problem	190	(14)
The Consulship (59 BC)	204	(20)
Achievement in Gaul	224	(125)
The Period before his Departure	226	(9)
The First Gallic Campaigns	235	(19)
Caesar and the War as Reflected in his Commentaries	254	(11)
Political Successes, Spectacular Campaigns, the First Reverses (56 to the Beginning of 51 BC)	265	(36)
Caesar's Gallic World	301	(15)
The Crisis of Caesar's Governorship (49 BC)	316	(33)
The Process of the Crisis without Alternative, Caesar's Right to the Civil War, his Greatness	349	(15)
The Civil War (49-46 BC)	364	(66)
The Italian Campaign and the Policy of Clemency	367	(15)
The First Spanish Campaign and the Second Visit to Rome (April-December 49 BC)	382	(6)
The Greek Campaign (until September 48 BC)	388	(14)
The Campaign in the East and Sojourn in Egypt (September 48-September 47 BC)	402	(12)
Two Months in Rome (October-November 48 BC)	414	(6)
The African Campaign, the Death of Cato	420	(10)
Failure after Victory	430	(57)
Caesar in Rome	436	(16)
The Second Spanish Campaign, the Dispute about the Dead Cato, the Decision to Make War on the Parthians	452	(9)
In Rome for the Last Time: from the Spanish Triumph to the Ides of March 44 BC)	461	(26)
Afterword	487	(10)
Afterword to the Third German Paperback Edition	497	(2)
Index	499