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The Gallic War, and Other Writings
Anbieter: Santa Fe Used Books, Santa Fe, NM, USA
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hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Heavy smoker's book, cigarette smell/damage. Otherwise very good. Hardcover in jacket. Clean and unmarked. Binding strong. Light wear. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AC214
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The Gallic War and Other Writings (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 295)
Anbieter: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, USA
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Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Reprint. 1957-59 printing of Toledano 295.1, binding/jacket style 8i, $1.95 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers, 393 titles on jacket verso. Jacket lightly toned, ink name and date on verso of front endpaper. xix, 363 pp. Includes frontispiece map of Roman Empire and two-page map of Gaul. A collection of the Roman emperor's historical writings, translated and introduced by Moses Hadas, with a gazetteer of names following text. Includes: Introduction; Gallic War I-VIII; Civil War I-III; Alexandrine, African, and Spanish Wars; Fragments. "Julius Caesar (100 BCE - 44 BCE), the famous Roman politician and soldier, rose to fame and power in his conquest of the Celts of western Europe. His book Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic War, often called The Conquest of Gaul), was a propaganda piece (written in 53 BCE) justifying his military and political actions during a nine year campaign in Gaul (and a short jaunt into Britain). Although he clearly had much first-hand contact with Celts, some scholars believe that he also drew upon Posidonius. He was not interested in Celtic ethnography per se, but rather on the political and social matters of the elite which were relevant for Roman imperial interests. As Rankin has observed, "Caesar was not a historian: he was a political war-lord in need of good public relations material to confuse both friends and enemies in Rome about the true nature of his activities in Gaul." - Exploring Celtic Civilizations. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2349433