Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
On a dark January morning, Julius Caesar, the governor of Gaul, rode with his closest aides towards a river named the Rubicon, which marked the line of the frontier with Ancient Italy. A governor was forbidden to lead troops out of his allotted province—to break this severest of laws was...
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On a dark January morning, Julius Caesar, the governor of Gaul, rode with his closest aides towards a river named the Rubicon, which marked the line of the frontier with Ancient Italy. A governor was forbidden to lead troops out of his allotted province—to break this severest of laws was tantamount to a declaration of civil war. Caesar was a gambler, however. Like the cons
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Format: Audiobook
Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
War,
Military,
Politics,
Roman,
Ancient,
European History,
World History
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”Rather than gesture his men onward, Gaius Julius Caesar instead gazed into the turbid waters of the Rubicon, and said nothing. And his mind moved upon silence.The Romans had a word for such a momentDiscrimen, they called it--an instant of perilous and excruciating tension, when the achievements of ...
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