Caesar: Life of a Colossus
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780300139198 (0300139195)
Publish date: October 1st 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 627
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
War,
Military,
Biography Memoir,
Ancient,
European History,
World History
This is not an easy book to write, the biography of Caesar. The man who died at the hands of many but whose life has been revived repeatedly by numerous pens and brushes. From Plutarch, to Suetonius, to Shakespeare, to Gérôme, to the Hollywood or TV studios, to the Asterix cartoons…, we have a wh...
mp3 - showroom read; unabridged; 27.5 hoursThis is a scholarly rendition and as such, is coming over rather dry. Thoroughly researched and the politics of the time excellently delivered but still not sure that I will wade through every word.ETA - This would be brilliant for university students but n...