Title Julius Caesar and the Roman people / Robert Morstein-Marx, University of California, Santa Barbara

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 690 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents The Early Caesar -- Caesar's "Entry into History": The Catilinarian Debate and Its Aftermath -- Caesar's First Consulship -- Caesar in Gaul: The View from Rome -- No Return: Caesar's Dignitas and the Coming of the Civil War -- Taking Sides -- Caesar's Leniency -- En route to the Parthian War Summary "Julius Caesar was no aspiring autocrat seeking to realize the imperial future but an unusually successful republican leader who was measured against the Republic's traditions and its greatest heroes of the past. Catastrophe befell Rome not because Caesar (or anyone else) turned against the Republic, its norms and institutions, but because Caesar's extraordinary success mobilized a determined opposition which ultimately preferred to precipitate civil war rather than accept its political defeat. Based on painstaking re-analysis of the ancient sources in the light of recent advances in our understanding of the participatory role of the People in the republican political system, a strong emphasis on agents' choices rather than structural causation, and profound scepticism toward the facile determinism that often substitutes for historical explanation, this book offers a radical reinterpretation of a figure of profound historical importance who stands at the turning point of Roman history from Republic to Empire"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 15, 2021) Subject Caesar, Julius. Caesar, Julius -- Influence SUBJECT Caesar, Julius fast Subject Political leadership -- Rome -- History HISTORY / Ancient / General. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Kings and rulers Political leadership Politics and government SUBJECT Rome -- Politics and government -- 265-30 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115180 Rome -- Kings and rulers. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115174 Rome -- History, Military -- 265-30 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95002946 Subject Rome (Empire) Genre/Form History Military history Form Electronic book LC no. 2021024627 ISBN 9781108943260 1108943268

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