Contents
https://archive.org/details/juliuscaesar00gunt/
Summary from card sleeve, taken from Publisher's note:
"More than a brilliant military chieftain, more than a colossal soldier and statesman, Julius Caesar was a complex man. In this . . . book, John Gunther clearly shows us the riddle that was Caesar and re-creates the events, the times, and the forces that shaped the life of the man who came, who saw--and who conquered!"
Contents
PART ONE
1. Caesar and the pirates
2. In those days Rome was like this . . .
3. Family background
4. The youth of Caesar
5. Out in the East
6. Home Rome was ruled--the Senate and the people
7. The political arena
8. Caesar struggles to get ahead
9. Pompey, Crassus, and the Triumvirate
PART TWO
10. Caesar conquers Gaul
11. He has interests in Rome, too, while fighting a thousand miles away
12. The last act in Gaul
13. The Rubicon
PART THREE
14. The Civil War
15. Cleopatra--and after
16. Battles in Africa and Spain
17. Back in Rome
18. The Ides of March
19. Aftermath
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Summary from card sleeve, taken from Publisher's note:
"More than a brilliant military chieftain, more than a colossal soldier and statesman, Julius Caesar was a complex man. In this . . . book, John Gunther clearly shows us the riddle that was Caesar and re-creates the events, the times, and the forces that shaped the life of the man who came, who saw--and who conquered!"
Contents
PART ONE
1. Caesar and the pirates
2. In those days Rome was like this . . .
3. Family background
4. The youth of Caesar
5. Out in the East
6. Home Rome was ruled--the Senate and the people
7. The political arena
8. Caesar struggles to get ahead
9. Pompey, Crassus, and the Triumvirate
PART TWO
10. Caesar conquers Gaul
11. He has interests in Rome, too, while fighting a thousand miles away
12. The last act in Gaul
13. The Rubicon
PART THREE
14. The Civil War
15. Cleopatra--and after
16. Battles in Africa and Spain
17. Back in Rome
18. The Ides of March
19. Aftermath
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Description
A biography of Caesar, scholar and leader, whom historians described as the first modern man.
Pages
182