![]() Argues that Caesar was not an aspiring autocrat seeking to overthrow the Republic, but an unusually successful republican political leader against whom a determined opposition ultimately preferred to wage civil war rather than accept political defeat. Description for Library A thorough reconsideration of Julius Caesar's career throughout the crisis of the Roman Republic. Description for Bookstore A thorough reconsideration of Julius Caesar's career throughout the crisis of the Roman Republic. Conclusion Review Quote 'What Morstein-Marx attempts here is nothing less than a reset of earlier thinking about the end of the Republic and Caesar's role in its downfall.' Michael Fallon, Classics For All Promotional "Headline" Reinterprets Julius Caesar not as an autocrat seeking to overthrow the Roman Republic, but as an unusually successful political leader. No Return: Caesar's Dignitas and the Coming of the Civil War 7. Caesar's 'Entry into History': The Catilinarian Debate and Its Aftermath 4. 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. 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. The Nile on eBay Julius Caesar and the Roman People by Robert Morstein-marx A thorough reconsideration of Julius Caesar's career throughout the crisis of the Roman Republic. A thorough reconsideration of Julius Caesar's career throughout the crisis of the Roman Republic. ![]() Item: 134481270674 Julius Caesar and the Roman People by Robert Morstein-marx (English) Hardcover B.
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