Caesar I: The Gallic War (Loeb Classical Library 72)

Julius Caesar; Translated by H. J. Edwards

ISBN 10: 0674990803 / ISBN 13: 9780674990807

Published by Harvard University Press / Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, Mass., 1997

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Clean, tight hardcover bound in full cloth with unmarked interior and text. The dust jacket is bright, attractive, and whole with light sunning to the spine. NOT ex-lib. A clean, tight copy in jacket. Indexed. xxii, 631pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Caesar I: The Gallic War (Loeb Classical Library 72)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press / Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, Mass.
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674990803
• ISBN 13: 9780674990807
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

The conquest that begot the Roman Empire.

Caesar (C. Iulius, 102–44 BC), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator Sulla; served in the Mithridatic wars and in Spain; entered Roman politics as a “democrat” against the senatorial government; was the real leader of the coalition with Pompey and Crassus; conquered all Gaul for Rome; attacked Britain twice; was forced into civil war; became master of the Roman world; and achieved wide-reaching reforms until his murder. We have his books of commentarii (notes): eight on his wars in Gaul, 58–52 BC, including the two expeditions to Britain 55–54, and three on the civil war of 49–48. They are records of his own campaigns (with occasional digressions) in vigorous, direct, clear, unemotional style and in the third person, the account of the civil war being somewhat more impassioned.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Caesar is in three volumes. Volume II is his Civil War. The Alexandrian War, the African War, and the Spanish War, commonly ascribed to Caesar by our manuscripts but of uncertain authorship, are collected in Volume III.

About the Author

Henry John Edwards (1869–1923) was Fellow and Tutor of Peterhouse, Cambridge.