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Product Details Binding Paperback Dewey Decimal Number 937.05 EAN 9780192839237 ISBN 0192839233 Manufacturer Oxford University Press, USA Number Of Items 1 Number Of Pages 432 Publication Date February 11, 1999 Publisher Oxford University Press, USA Availability Usually ships in 24 hours Product Description The Civil War is Caesar's masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 B.C. to Pompey's death and the start of the Alexandrian War in the autumn of the following year. His unfinished account of the continuing struggle with Pompey's heirs and followers is completed by the three anonymous accounts of the Alexandrian, African, and Spanish Wars, which bring the story down to within a year of Caesar's assassination in March 44 B.C. This generously annotated edition places the war in context and enables the reader to grasp it both in detail and as a whole. The Civil War is Caesar's masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 B.C. to Pompey's death and the start of the Alexandrian War in the autumn of the following year. His unfinished account of the continuing struggle with Pompey's heirs and followers is completed by the three anonymous accounts of the Alexandrian, African, and Spanish Wars, which bring the story down to within a year of Caesar's assassination in March 44 B.C. This generously annotated edition places the war in context and enables the reader to grasp it both in detail and as a whole. Text: English, Latin (translation) John Carter retired from a Senior Lectureship at Royal Holloway, University of London in 1992. His most recent translation is the Greek historian Appian's account of the Roman Civil Wars (1996). Customers who bought this item also bought The Conquest of Gaul (Penguin Classics) The Gallic War: Seven Commentaries on The Gallic War with an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius (Oxford World's Classics) The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics) Livy: The Early History of Rome, Books I-V (Penguin Classics) The Jugurthine War / The Conspiracy of Catiline (Penguin Classics) Customer Reviews for: The Civil War: With the anonymous Alexandrian, African, and Spanish Wars (Oxford World's Classics) Rating - Prestige has always been of prime importance to me As Jane F. Garner states in her excellent introduction, Caesar understood that one could not break the Roman Senate's de facto power in the Roman republic by using the sovereign power of the people. `One needed to secure military command, and with it, wealth, patronage and, not least important, armed power.' This book is in fact the story of the battles for the consolidation of one sole armed power in the Roman republic under one general, ... Read More Rating - Second Book in the Oxford Series I've Read I enjoyed the book on the Gallic War and equally enjoyed this book on the Civil War. The method of indicating and referencing notes was easy to work with. Additonally, both books have an excellent amount of introductory material. Rating - Excellent Pre-Christian view of untainted world I bought this book as a replacement (lost the original plus many more to Hurricane Katrina). Any fan of the pre-christian world or anyone who would like a work that was written over 2000 years ago by one of history's greatest men, this book is for you! Rating - The Civil War (Penguin Classics) (Paperback) It was exactly what I wanted. A good translation of the book. see more reviews See all books by author Julius Caesar

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