Julius Caesar: A Life by Patricia Southern (PDF)

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Julius Caesar is part historical figure and part legend. He was a complex individual, a brilliant politician, a successful general, an accomplished psychologist. He grew up in a world where political and military careers were inextricably intertwined, and he excelled at both. In his youth he was considered vain and a little foppish, but showed nerves of steel when he defied the Dictator Sulla – and survived. Bending to someone’s will was not in Caesar’s make-up. He came late to a position of supreme power, and though his policies embraced pragmatic, sensible measures designed to solve the problems that beset the Republic, it was his dictatorial methods rather than his ideas which caused resentment.Unfortunately, when his assassins killed him, hoping to liberate the state from what they saw as his tyranny, they had formulated no plans for the government of the Roman world. By murdering Caesar, the assassins provoked a prolonged series of civil wars, and the rise of Augustus, the all-powerful first Emperor, who took up where Caesar left off. In this new appraisal of his life, Patricia Southern sheds light on the man behind the legend.

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⭐Well-researched and an easy read for someone coming to the Late Republic for the first time. This is a great book to read if you want to find out about Caesar’s life and career in detail, but there’s nothing really new here. Also, I really don’t see the point of the strange coin drawings – photographs would have been much better!

⭐Really enjoyed this book, well written and interesting to read.

⭐First book in English (I’m French), easy to reed, I think that the author tried to be as accurate about the fact as possible.A bit lost sometimes because of the timeline was not always very clear to me (which may be because my English is far from perfect)

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