Riding for Caesar: The Roman Emperors' Horse Guard
Language: English
Published by Harvard University Press, 1994
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Charles Berry, Bookseller, Lakeport, CA, U.S.A.Charles Berry, Bookseller
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Hardcover and dust jacket in excellent, next-to-pristine condition (slightest handling, slightest pencil erasure on the front endpaper corner, otherwise this book is unmarked). The DJ is protected by a clear, removeable cover. 223 pages. [1.6 lbs].
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- Title
- Riding for Caesar: The Roman Emperors' Horse Guard
- Author
- Speidel, Michael P.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0674768973
- ISBN 13
- 9780674768970
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- History, Ancient
Caesar praised them in his Commentaries. Trajan had them carved on his Column. Hadrian wrote poems about them. Well might these rulers have immortalized the horse guard, whose fortunes so closely kept pace with their own. Riding for Caesar follows these horsemen from their rally to rescue Caesar at Noviodunum in 52 BC to their last stand alongside Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. It offers a colorful picture of these horsemen in all their changing guises and duties―as the emperor’s bodyguard or his parade troops, as a training school and officer’s academy for the Roman army, or as a shock force in the endless wars of the second and third centuries.
Written by one of the world’s leading authorities on the Roman army, this history reveals the remarkable part the horse guard played in the fate of the Roman empire.
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