Caesar's Gallic Wars, 58-50 BC

Author(s)

• Gilliver, Catherine

Bibliographic Information

Caesar's Gallic Wars, 58-50 BC

Kate Gilliver

（Essential histories）

Osprey, 2002

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [93]) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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. Gillver 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.

Table of Contents

• Introduction and Chronology
• Background to War
• Warring Sides
• Outbreak
• The Fighting
• Portrait of a soldier
• The Wider Context
• Portait of a cvivilian
• How the war ended
• Conclusion and consequences

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Details

• NCID: BA71962126
• ISBN:
  • 1841763055
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: 95 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 936.4
• Subject Headings:
  • BLSH : Caesar, Julius, 100 B.C.-44 B.C., De bello Gallico
  • LCSH : Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C
  • LCSH : Gaul -- History -- Gallic Wars, 58-51 B.C
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA58224288