First edition of this classic historical biography detailing Julius Caesar's life, political rise, and military career. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, floral endapers, linen repairs at hinges, with illustrations and maps. In very good condition, bookplate to the front free endpaper, University Club stamps to the second free endpaper and title page. Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System (1892) is a landmark work of Victorian classical scholarship by William Warde Fowler (1847� "1921), the celebrated Oxford classicist and Fellow of Lincoln College whose body of work on Roman history, religion, and social life established him as one of the most distinguished Latinists of his generation. The book traces Caesar's rise to power, examining his military conquests and political maneuvers and analyzing how they shaped Rome's transition from a crumbling republic to an imperial state, drawing heavily and with considerable scholarly scruple on Caesar's own Commentarii as a primary source � " an approach that lends the treatment exceptional documentary fidelity while also reflecting Fowler's characteristically cautious resistance to speculation unsupported by textual evidence. Fowler argues that Caesar, personifying the principle of intelligent government by a single man, made it possible for the Roman dominion � " then on the point of breaking up � " to grow into a great political union that provided the material foundation for modern civilization, a thesis that situates the work squarely within the Victorian tradition of reading Roman imperial history as a mirror for contemporary British governance and empire.

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Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System.

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G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York

Publication Date

1891

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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