Caesar's Commentaries by Gaius Julius Caesar

During his youth, the Roman Republic was in chaos. Caesar was born on July 12 or 13 in 100 B.C.E. – between the wars in Alexandria and Spain – and were not completed. Julius Caesar was a Roman general and politician who named himself dictator of the Roman Empire, a rule that lasted less than one year before he was famously assassinated by political rivals in 44 B.C.E. It is assumed that the 'Notes' were written in 47 BC.

Commentarii de Bello Civili) on the civil war in Rome 49-45 BC, which act as a continuation of the Notes on the Gallic War. This book also contains Notes on the Civil War (lat. According to the title, Caesar's book is a dry summary of the events of the war in Gaul (France, Belgium, England, which Caesar himself called inhospitable and of no value for conquest) in the middle of the first century BC and the actions of the author as a commander and ruler. Cover of: Caesars Gallic war Cover of: Caesars Commentaries on the Gallic war: with notes, dictionary, and Cover of: Tales of the civil war: from Caesars. Only they were made in ancient Rome on waxed tablets, specially processed so that the wax hardened quickly and the tablet could be stored for a long time. The Latins called comments what we call notebooks today, that is, where notes are entered for memory. Caesar narrates in the third person, mentioning in passing invaluable geographical and ethnographic details (e.g., the most detailed description of the Druids). The last book after Caesar's death was completed by Aulus Hirtius, who prefaced it with his epistle to Balbo. Gaius Julius Caesar No preview available - 2018 Caesars Commentaries De Bello Gallico Books I. The exact date of his writing is unknown.

Commentarii de Bello Gallico) is a work by Gaius Julius Caesar in which in eight books he described his conquest of Gaul in 58-50 BC, as well as the two crossings of the Rhine and the landing in Britain in a precise, concise and energetic manner.

Caesar's Commentaries by Gaius Julius Caesar