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Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire

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Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire - Osgood, Josiah
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In April 44 BC the eighteen-year-old Gaius Octavius landed in Italy and launched his take-over of the Roman world. Defeating first Caesar's assassins, then the son of Pompey the Great, and finally Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, he dismantled the old Republic, took on the new name 'Augustus', and ruled forty years more with his equally remarkable wife Livia. Caesar's Legacy grippingly retells the story of Augustus' rise to power by focusing on how the bloody civil wars which he and his soldiers fought transformed ...

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Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire 2006, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521671774

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Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire 2006, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521855822

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