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History of Rome. Classic Collection. Illustrated
The Gallic Wars, The Histories, Roman History and The Civil Wars, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The History of Rome
2022
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This collection includes classic works on the history of Rome from its foundation to the collapse of the empire into Western and Eastern:Julius Caesar:The Gallic WarsThe Civil WarTacitus:The HistoriesThe AnnalsAppian:Roman HistoryThe Civil WarsEdward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireTheodor Mommsen: The History of Rome
- Translated by
- W. A. Macdevitt
2022
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The Gallic Wars were waged between 58 and 50 BC by the Roman general Julius Caesar against the peoples of Gaul (present-day France, Belgium, along with parts of Germany and the United Kingdom). Gallic, Germanic, and British tribes fought to defend their homelands against an aggressive Roman campaign.Caesar portrayed the invasion as being a preemptive and defensive action, but historians agree that he fought the Wars primarily to boost his political career and to pay off his debts. S...
Complete Works of Julius Caesar. Illustrated
The Gallic wars, The Civil war, On the Alexandrine war, On the African war, On the Hispanic war
- Translated by
- W. A. MacdevittW. S. BohnAlexander Thomson
2021
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During his lifetime, Caesar was regarded as one of the best orators and prose authors in Latin —even Cicero spoke highly of Caesar's rhetoric and style.Only Caesar's war memoirs The Gallic Wars and The Civil War have survived. These narratives were written and published annually during or just after the actual campaigns, as a sort of "dispatches from the front".A few sentences from other works are quoted by other authors.Among his lost works are his funeral oration for...