Caesar's Gallic Wars: 58-50 BC

by Kate Gilliver

Overview

Julius Caesar was one of the most ambitious and successful politicians of the late Roman Republic and his short but bloody conquest of the Celtic tribes led to the establishment of the Roman province of Gaul (modern France). Caesar's commentaries on his Gallic Wars provide us with the most detailed surviving eye-witness account of a campaign from antiquity. Kate Gilliver makes use of this account and other surviving evidence to consider the importance of the Gallic Wars in the context of the collapse of the Roman Republic and its slide toward civil war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472809896
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	06/06/2014
Series:	Guide to... , #43
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	233,483
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

C.M. Gilliver studied Classics and Classical Archaeology at King's College London and took her PhD in Roman Military Theory at The Institute of Archaeology, University College London. She is lecturer in Ancient History at Cardiff University and is the author of The Roman Art of War (1999). She is currently preparing a book on Roman siege warfare.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Background to War
Warring Sides
Outbreak
The Fighting
The World Around War
How the War Ended
Conclusion and Consequences
Chronology
Further Reading
Index