Julius Caesar

This biography places Julius Caesar inside the late Roman Republic's inability to absorb outstanding individuals. Meier follows Caesar from youth and the Sullan aftermath through the career of an outsider: aedile, pontifex, consul in 59 BC, commander in Gaul, and opponent of Pompey and the senatorial core around Cato. He treats the Gallic wars, the crossing into Italy, the civil war, and the dictatorship as the working-out of a political system that had no legal place for such power. The book is an analytical life, not a campaign chronicle only: a study of how one career and a failing republic made each other.

Bound in dark green buckram with copper foil portrait cover. Dark green slipcase.