The Gallic Wars The Conquest of Gaul and the Expansion of Rome
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Wilder Publications
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
03.04.2018
Verlag
Wilder PublicationsSeitenzahl
172
Maße (L/B/H)
23,5/15,7/1,4 cm
Gewicht
409 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-5154-3326-2
A firsthand military and political account of Rome's conquest of Gaul, written by Julius Caesar during the campaigns themselves. Composed in clear, direct prose, The Gallic Wars (Commentarii de Bello Gallico) records the series of conflicts fought between 58 and 50 BCE, in which Caesar expanded Roman control across what is now France and parts of Western Europe. The work serves both as historical chronicle and as carefully shaped political narrative, presenting Caesar's leadership, strategy, and justification for war to a Roman audience. Structured as a sequence of annual campaign reports, the text offers detailed descriptions of battles, fortifications, logistics, and diplomacy, as well as ethnographic observations of the Gallic and Germanic tribes. Caesar's measured, third-person style-at once restrained and self-serving-has made the work a foundational text in both classical historiography and Latin prose. It has long been studied not only for its historical content but also for its rhetorical precision and insight into Roman imperial ideology. This edition presents the complete text in the classic English translation by W. A. Macdevitt, preserving the clarity and accessibility that have made it a standard for generations of readers.
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