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(0)Miriam T Griffin
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
2007, p1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Julius Caesar is one of the central figures in Roman history. Rapid promotions from a humble civil servant put him in command of the mighty Roman Legions which completed the conquests of Gaul and Britain, and established him as a great but bloodthirsty general. However, the politically ambitious Caesar made many enemies and he was assassinated in the Senate House on March 15th, 44 B.C.
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Series
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
'any service I may have rendered my countrymen in my active life I may also extend to them... now that I am at leisure' Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome's greatest orator, had a career of intense activity in politics, the law courts and the administration, mostly in Rome. His fortunes, however, followed those of Rome, and he found himself driven into exile in 58 BC, only to return a year later to a city paralyzed by the domination of Pompey,...