Riding for Caesar: The Roman Emperor's Horse Guard
Language: English
Published by Batsford, London, 1994
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Riley Books, Oswaldtwistle, United KingdomRiley Books
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Binding blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Dj price-clipped; now protected inside a cover. During the Republic, Rome had no permanent guard as she had no ruler and no standing army. But as soon as emperors came to power, they raised a horse guard, for one-man rule hinged on it, in peace as well as in war. The history of the Roman horse guard in fact begins at Noviodunum, in 52 BC, when they saved Caesar in Gaul. Michael Speidel here traces the history of the tall, fierce and faithful horsemen from that monument until they perished with Maxentius, drowning in the battle of the Mivian Bridge. Based on literary, archaeological and epigraphic sources, Professor Speidel's book represents the first history of the Roman horse guard ever written and provides a readable account of the intricate part these men played in the fate of the Roman empire and its emperors.
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- Title
- Riding for Caesar: The Roman Emperor's Horse Guard
- Author
- Michael P. Speidel
- Publisher
- Batsford, London
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0713467509
- ISBN 13
- 9780713467505
- Edition
- First.
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