Caesar's Legacy - Osgood, Josiah
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Caesar's Legacy recounts the rise to power of Rome's first emperor, Augustus, by focusing on how the bloody civil wars which he and his soldiers fought transformed the lives of men and women throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond. It shows how, during this violent period, Romans came to accept a new form of government and found ways to celebrate it in their towns and cities. Yet they also mourned, in literary masterpieces and stories passed on to their children, the terrible losses that accompanied the long years of fighting.

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Caesar's Legacy recounts the rise to power of Rome's first emperor, Augustus, by focusing on how the bloody civil wars which he and his soldiers fought transformed the lives of men and women throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond. It shows how, during this violent period, Romans came to accept a new form of government and found ways to celebrate it in their towns and cities. Yet they also mourned, in literary masterpieces and stories passed on to their children, the terrible losses that accompanied the long years of fighting.
Autorenporträt
Josiah Osgood is Assistant Professor of Classics at Georgetown University, where he lectures on Roman history and Latin literature. He undertook his graduate studies at Yale University where his dissertation was awarded the John Addison Porter prize for outstanding academic writing. This is his first book.
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'By close and intelligent readings of very different types of contemporary evidence, Osgood makes the reader understand the horror of those years in the lives of ordinary Romans. His mastery of a very wide range of modern scholarship is matched by an admirably direct and accessible style. Caesar's Legacy is a historical work of real distinction.' The Times Literary Supplement