CAESAR: POLITICIAN AND STATESMAN

Matthias Gelzer

ISBN 10: 0674090012 / ISBN 13: 9780674090019

Verlag: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

Beschreibung

359p. A softcover book in fine condition. The copyright date is 1968, but this printing appears more recent, ca. 1990s.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 182789

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: CAESAR: POLITICIAN AND STATESMAN
• Verlag: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
• ISBN-10: 0674090012
• ISBN-13: 9780674090019
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: As New
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Classical Studies

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Inhaltsangabe

In 1912 a young scholar published a slim volume investigating the social structure of the late Roman Republic, which was in due course to transform the study of Roman history. The author, Professor Gelzer, went on to hold the Chair of Ancient History at Frankfurt and to become the greatest German-speaking historian of the Roman Republic since Mommsen. In 1921 he published his Caesar, which has by now gone through six editions in Germany and is still the standard account, in any language, of Caesar and his age. It amply fulfills the author's intent "to give the educated public a lively picture of the complete political career of one of the great statesmen of the past." Based on a conscientious evaluation of the abundant source materials—primarily the writings of Caesar and his contemporaries—Professor Gelzer's portrait renders Caesar in heroic proportions, destined and determined from the beginning to overthrow a corrupt aristocracy. The sixth edition (1960), brought up to date and provided with full annotations by the author, is the basis of this translation, which for the first time makes the work available in English. With Professor Gelzer's approval, some minor errors have been corrected, both in the text and in the chronological table and the map at the end of the book, and an analytical index of names has been added.

Críticas

The book which students of Roman history have needed...a book which at every point gives access to the ancient sources. It is a wise book, written by one of the wisest of Roman historians.--Times Literary Supplement

No one interested in history should lack this thoroughly documented masterwork, the culmination of forty years of scholarship devoted to the last days of the Roman Republic.--Boston Globe