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The Civil Wars
by: Appian

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 937.05
EAN: 9780140445091
ISBN: 0140445099
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: June 27, 1996
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics
Sales Rank: 193042

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This is an extract from what survives of the enormous history of Rome from the kings to his own time by the 2nd-century Alexandrian writer, Appian. It covers the increasing violence that changed the face of Roman politics and society from Tiberius Gracchus, through the enormously influential struggles of Sulla and Marius, Caesar and Pompey, to Octavian nad Mark Antony (though not the resolution at Actium). The dense narrative has a relentless momentum, relating the birth of an empire through its internal conflicts. The translation is supported by a very thorough introduction, an appendix covering Roman social organization, and maps. This is a book for lovers of the history of power struggles, and for students of the period who wish to compare this verison of famous events with those of other, sometimes better-known, Roman historians. (Kirkus UK)

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Taken from Appian's Roman History, the five books collected here form the sole surviving continuous historical narrative of the era between 133-35 BC - a time of anarchy and instability for the Roman Empire. A masterly account of a turbulent epoch, they describe the Catiline conspiracy; the rise and fall of the First Triumvirate; the murder of Julius Caesar; the formation of the Second Triumvirate by Antonius, Octavian, and Lepidus; and brutal civil war. A compelling depiction of the decline of the Roman state into brutality and violence, The Civil Wars portrays political discontent, selfishness and the struggle for power - a struggle that was to culminate in a titanic battle for mastery over the Roman Empire, and the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra by Octavian in 31 BC

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Taken from Appian's Roman History, the five books collected here form the sole surviving continuous historical narrative of the era between 133-35 BC - a time of anarchy and instability for the Roman Empire. A masterly account of a turbulent epoch, they describe the Catiline conspiracy; the rise and fall of the First Triumvirate; the murder of Julius Caesar; the formation of the Second Triumvirate by Antonius, Octavian, and Lepidus; and brutal civil war. A compelling depiction of the decline of the Roman state into brutality and violence, The Civil Wars portrays political discontent, selfishness and the struggle for power - a struggle that was to culminate in a titanic battle for mastery over the Roman Empire, and the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra by Octavian in 31 BC

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Appian's account of the Roman Civil Wars seems to be a much ignored text. He wasn't a witness to the events like Caesar, and he wasn't a great biographical writer like Plutarch. Yet his work stands as the only unbroken account of the years 133 to 70 BC, making his history a rather special one.

The book doesn't end in 70 BC, but rather it covers everything to the defeat of Sextus Pompeius, Pompey Magnus's son. Along the way Appian describes the revolt of Spartacus, the Catiline conspiracy, the rise and fall of the First Triumvirate, Julius Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon, and the rise of the Second Triumvirate and the terrible proscriptions that followed.

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