num_pages: 432
description: `All over Italy men were conscripted &amp; weapons requisitioned. Money was exacted from towns &amp; taken from shrines. All the laws of god &amp; man were overturned.' The Civil War is Caesar's account of the celebrated war between himself &amp; Pompey, from his crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 B.C. to Pompey's death &amp; the start of the Alexandrian War in the autumn of the following year. His unfinished account of the continuing struggle with Pomepy's heirs &amp; followers is completed by the three anonymous accounts of the Alexandrian, African &amp; Spanish Wars, which bring the story down to within a year of his assassination in March 44 B.C. This annotated edition places the war in context, enabling readers to grasp it in detail &amp; as a whole.
language: English
title: The Civil War: With the Anonymous Alexandrian, African and Spanish Wars
titlecomplete: The Civil War: With the Anonymous Alexandrian, African and Spanish Wars
genres: Ancient History, Military Fiction, Classics, War, Nonfiction, History, Military History
ratings_count: 67
publisher: Oxford University Press