The Gallic Wars [Loeb Classical Library, 72]

Caesar; H. J. Edwards, trans

ISBN 10: 0674990803 / ISBN 13: 9780674990807

Published by Harvard University Press, 2000

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Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight wear on upper and lower edges of text. Dust jacket slightly worn on corners, facing and along spine. Otherwise VG 631 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Gallic Wars [Loeb Classical Library, 72]
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: Latin
• ISBN 10: 0674990803
• ISBN 13: 9780674990807
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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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.