num_pages: 454
description: Caesar's Legacy recounts the rise to power of Rome's first emperor, Augustus, by focusing on how the bloody civil wars which he and his soldiers fought transformed the lives of men and women throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond. The volume demonstrates how, during this violent period, Romans came to accept a new form of government and found ways to celebrate it in their towns and cities. It also reveals how they mourned, in literary masterpieces and stories passed onto their children, the terrible losses that accompanied the long years of fighting.
language: English
title: Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire
titlecomplete: Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire
genres: Classical Studies, Ancient History, Classics, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 37
publisher: Cambridge University Press