Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire

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. The volume demonstrates 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. It also reveals how they mourned, in literary masterpieces and stories passed onto their children, the terrible losses that accompanied the long years of fighting.

Author: Josiah Osgood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/01/2006
Pages: 454
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.62lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.94w x 1.05d
ISBN: 9780521671774

About the Author
Osgood, Josiah: - 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.