Caesar
En biografi
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- 89,00 kr
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- 89,00 kr
Utgivarens beskrivning
Julius Caesar är en av världshistoriens mest inflytelserika män och hans liv var våldsamt dramatiskt. Han har främst uppmärksammats som en lysande härförare men var minst lika skicklig som politiker.
Caesar lyckades erövra stora delar av dagens Europa och ändå hålla sig väl med folket. Även Caesars privatliv är fascinerande, inte minst kärlekslivet. Romansen med den mytomspunna egyptiska drottningen Kleopatra är bara en av många.
Caesar är den första boken på senare år som tar upp alla sidor av Caesar – politikern, härföraren och mannen – i en och samma volym.
Adrian Goldsworthy, född 1969, är en välkänd brittisk militärhistoriker.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The man who virtually defined the West's concept of leadership comes alive in this splendid biography. Military historian Goldsworthy (The Complete Roman Army) gives a comprehensive, vigorous account of Caesar's conquest of Gaul and his victories in the civil war that made him master of Rome. But he doesn't stint on the nonmartial aspects of Caesar's life his dandyism, his flagrant womanizing (which didn't stop enemies from gay-baiting him), his supple political genius and the flair for drama and showmanship that cowed mutinous legionaries and courted Rome's restive masses. Goldsworthy's is a sympathetic profile. In his telling, Caesar's massacres and group enslavements, though "utterly ruthless," are considered and pragmatic, not wanton, and the conqueror seems to possess a moderation and magnanimity that sprang from the same idealized self-image that fed his ambition. The author's vivid portrait of the late Roman Republic that Caesar toppled is correspondingly jaundiced: its politics are about nothing except the personal ambitions of powerful men, and chaos, corruption and violence reign beneath the ritualistic niceties of republican procedure. More compellingly than most biographies, Goldsworthy's exhaustive, lucid, elegantly written life makes its subject the embodiment of his age. 16 pages of b&w photos, maps.
