Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521855822)

Caesar's Legacy recounts the rise to power of Rome's first emperor, Augustus, by focusing on how the bloody civil wars which he and his soldiers fought transformed the lives of men and women throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond. The volume demonstrates how, during this violent period, Romans came to accept a new form of government and found ways to celebrate it in their towns and cities. It also reveals how they mourned, in literary masterpieces and stories passed onto their children, the terrible losses that accompanied the long years of fighting.

Author: Josiah Osgood
ISBN-10: 0521855829
ISBN-13: 9780521855822
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/16/2006
Pages: 454
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.20d