Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire

by Josiah Osgood

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521855829
• ISBN13: 9780521855822
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"