Book Description
Pompey the Great gives readers a look inside the political and military world of ancient Rome and at one of the characters that shaped its destiny.
Author : Robin Seager
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 047077522X
Pompey the Great gives readers a look inside the political and military world of ancient Rome and at one of the characters that shaped its destiny.
Author : Robin Seager
Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,79 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Pat Southern
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 23,79 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A detailed study of Pompey's achievements
Author : Anthony Everitt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1588360342
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “An excellent introduction to a critical period in the history of Rome. Cicero comes across much as he must have lived: reflective, charming and rather vain.”—The Wall Street Journal “All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.”—John Adams He squared off against Caesar and was friends with young Brutus. He advised the legendary Pompey on his botched transition from military hero to politician. He lambasted Mark Antony and was master of the smear campaign, as feared for his wit as he was for his ruthless disputations. Brilliant, voluble, cranky, a genius of political manipulation but also a true patriot and idealist, Cicero was Rome’s most feared politician, one of the greatest lawyers and statesmen of all times. In this dynamic and engaging biography, Anthony Everitt plunges us into the fascinating, scandal-ridden world of ancient Rome in its most glorious heyday—when senators were endlessly filibustering legislation and exposing one another’s sexual escapades to discredit the opposition. Accessible to us through his legendary speeches but also through an unrivaled collection of unguarded letters to his close friend Atticus, Cicero comes to life as a witty and cunning political operator, the most eloquent and astute witness to the last days of Republican Rome. Praise for Cicero “ [Everitt makes] his subject—brilliant, vain, principled, opportunistic and courageous—come to life after two millennia.”—The Washington Post “ Gripping . . . Everitt combines a classical education with practical expertise. . . . He writes fluidly.”—The New York Times “In the half-century before the assassination of Julius Caesar . . . Rome endured a series of crises, assassinations, factional bloodletting, civil wars and civil strife, including at one point government by gang war. This period, when republican government slid into dictatorship, is one of history’s most fascinating, and one learns a great deal about it in this excellent and very readable biography.”—The Plain Dealer “Riveting . . . a clear-eyed biography . . . Cicero’s times . . . offer vivid lessons about the viciousness that can pervade elected government.”—Chicago Tribune “Lively and dramatic . . . By the book’s end, he’s managed to put enough flesh on Cicero’s old bones that you care when the agents of his implacable enemy, Mark Antony, kill him.”—Los Angeles Times
Author : David L. Stockton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Authors, Latin
ISBN : 9780198720331
Cicero: A Political Biography
Author : Francis Coventry
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 1761
Category : Dogs
ISBN :
Author : P. A. L. Greenhalgh
Publisher : London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Rob Goodman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 12,67 MB
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312681232
This biography of Marcus Cato the Younger -- Rome's bravest statesman, an aristocratic soldier, a Stoic philosopher, and staunch defender of sacred Roman tradition -- is rich with resonances for current politics and contemporary notions of freedom.
Author : Adrian Goldsworthy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 2006-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300139195
This “captivating biography” of the great Roman general “puts Caesar’s war exploits on full display, along with his literary genius” and more (The New York Times) Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the Julius Caesar’s life, Adrian Goldsworthy not only chronicles his accomplishments as charismatic orator, conquering general, and powerful dictator but also lesser-known chapters during which he was high priest of an exotic cult and captive of pirates, and rebel condemned by his own country. Goldsworthy also reveals much about Caesar’s intimate life, as husband and father, and as seducer not only of Cleopatra but also of the wives of his two main political rivals. This landmark biography examines Caesar in all of these roles and places its subject firmly within the context of Roman society in the first century B.C. Goldsworthy realizes the full complexity of Caesar’s character and shows why his political and military leadership continues to resonate thousands of years later.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Heads of state
ISBN :