The Commentaries Of Caesar - Softcover

Anthony Trollope

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461719711 ISBN 13: 9780461719710

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

The Commentaries Of Caesar by Anthony Trollope. The work is an edition and critical introduction to Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic wars and the Civil War, presented for English readers. Trollope offers a compact overview of Caesar’s life and character, discusses the structure and authorship of the Commentaries, and explains how Caesar’s narratives function as political as well as military history. The volume surveys Caesar’s campaigns across Gaul, his crossing of the Rubicon, and the civil war that followed, as well as the later campaigns in Illyria, Africa, and Spain, as recorded by Caesar or continued by later editors. Trollope comments on the strengths and limits of Caesar’s concise, sometimes brutal prose, the moral contrasts among Gauls and Germans, and the political uses of Caesar’s writings. The book aims to render Caesar accessible to modern readers while providing scholarly context about the historical significance and literary qualities of the Commentaries.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461719711
• ISBN 13: 9780461719710
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208