Caesar Versus Pompey - Stephen Dando-Collins

Caesar Versus Pompey

Determining Rome's Greatest General, Statesman & Nation-Builder
Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2024
Turner Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-1-68442-895-3 (ISBN)
16,20 inkl. MwSt
Who was Rome’s greatest general, statesman, and nation-builder:
Caesar or Pompey?



Few people have had as many words written about them down through
the centuries as Julius Caesar—the brilliant general who made Queen Cleopatra
of Egypt his mistress. He has captured the imagination of playwrights,
historians, soldiers, and emperors.



Little has been written about his ally, son-in-law, and eventual
enemy Pompey the Great, who crashed onto the Roman scene as a victorious
twenty-three-year-old general and who, at the height of his career, was arguably
more famous, more popular, and more successful than Caesar.



Caesar Versus Pompey tells the parallel life stories of
Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great, as their lives and loves became intertwined and
interdependent, as they grew from rivals to partners, then from joint rulers to
warring foes. One strove to preserve the Roman Republic, the other destroyed
it.

Stephen Dando-Collins is the multi-award-winning author of forty-eight books, including biographies and nonfiction works on ancient Rome, Greece, and Persia, as well as American, British, French, and Australian history including World War I and World War II. These works focus on military history, with Stephen considered an authority on the legions of imperial Rome. He has also written several successful novels and children’s novels. His books are widely published in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and they appear in translation in Spain, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, Albania, Russia, Korea, and Latin America.

Atlas

Illustrations

Introduction



A Bolt of Lightning Changes Everything


Caesar’s Uncle Takes Power, Pompey on Trial


Caesar the Priest, Pompey the Boy General


Caesar in Jeopardy, Pompey Becomes Great


Caesar Hides, Pompey Triumphs


After Sulla, Pompey & Caesar on Opposing Sides


Crassus the Property Developer & Cicero the Lawyer


Sneaky Sertorius versus Persistent Pompey


Pesky Spartacus Terminated by Crassus and Pompey


As Caesar Weeps, Pompey Conquers the East


Cicero Rules, Caesar’s Star Rises


Pompey’s Triumphant Return, Caesar Imperator in Spain


Caesar, Pompey & Crassus Rule Rome


Caesar Begins to Conquer Gaul, Pompey Rehabilitates Cicero


Caesar Subdues Gaul & Again Embraces Pompey


As Pompey & Crassus Rule, Caesar Invades Britain


With Two Deaths, Everything Changes


The Revolting Gauls Pressure Caesar


This Means War


Battle of the Giants


Both Assassinated


Assessment



Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Illustrations, unspecified
Verlagsort Paducah, KY
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-68442-895-5 / 1684428955
ISBN-13 978-1-68442-895-3 / 9781684428953
Zustand Neuware
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