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Author: Holland, Tom
Title: Rubicon : the last years of the Roman Republic / Tom Holland
Imprint New York : Doubleday, [2003]
©2003
Edition: First edition
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 Main Lib-1st Floor  DG266 .H65 2003    Available
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-399) and index
Summary One January morning, Julius Caesar, the governor of Gaul, arrived at a river named the Rubicon, which marked the frontier with Italy. A governor was forbidden to lead troops out of his province, but Caesar was a gambler. Quoting a line from one of Menander's plays: "The die is cast," he ordered his legion over the river and on toward Rome. Crossing the Rubicon has come to stand for every fateful step in history since. The result was a civil war which destroyed Rome's traditional freedoms and established a permanent dictatorship on the wreckage of its constitution. This book gives readers a harrowing account of the fall of the Republic, capturing the suspense and drama of Rome's most famous political rivalries, its vibrant and charged atmosphere, and featuring some of the most celebrated personalities in history: Caesar, Cicero, Spartacus, Cleopatra, Brutus, Pompey, Virgil.--From publisher description
Contents Paradoxical republic -- Sibyl's curse -- Luck be a lady -- Return of the native -- Fame is the spur -- Banquet of Carrion -- Debt to pleasure -- Triumvirate -- Wings of Icarus -- World war -- Death of the Republic
OCLC # 52878507
Phys. Description xxi, 408 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
ISBN 038550313X
9780385503136
Subject Rome -- History -- Civil War, 49-45 B.C
Civil War (Rome : 49-45 B.C.) fast (OCoLC)fst01352314
Rome (Empire) fast (OCoLC)fst01204885
Römisches Reich -- Bürgerkrieg (49 v. Chr.-45 v. Chr.) swd
49 - 45 B.C. fast
Edition: First edition
Genre History. (OCoLC)fst01411628