La guerra gallica

“In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.” ― Julius Caesar I kept jumping back and forth between my Loeb Classics version of The Gallic War and my Penguin Classics version of The Conquest of Gaul. Reading Caesar makes me want to go back and learn Latin (the Loeb Classic Leggi tutto

Addition: The library just purchased the newly published Landmark edition, so I requested it to verify that it is as outstanding as the other volumes in the Landmark series. Definitely yes. In short, do not accept any substitutes. This volume includes Caesar’s Gallic War and Civil War, as well as al Leggi tutto

Between 58 and 50 BCE, Julius Caesar, then proconsul of Cisalpine Gaulle, the roman province situated in modern North of Italy, led a long military campaign in Gaulle, known to us today as modern France, Switzerland, Belgium and reached Germania, the territory beyond the Rhine River. Furthermore, he Leggi tutto

Nothing better represents Caesar's understanding of how to play upon the hopes and joys of man than the fact that he was able to turn a few hundred pages of troop movements into a thoughtful, engrossing narrative. We read not only Caesar's thoughts and intentions in the work, but also gain an invalu Leggi tutto

A representative instance of classical rhetoric, an outstanding piece of fear-mongering propaganda, an antic textbook case on how to sell a war. ---------- Un travail de propagande remarquable, très instructif sur l'art de vendre une guerre.

"César es obligado en contra de su forma de ser a llevarlo al suplicio ante la enorme afluencia de soldados, quienes le echaban en cara todos los peligros y pérdidas sufridas por la guerra ..., de manera que su cuerpo azotado hasta la muerte fue decapitado por el hacha" Me encantó haber podido leer e Leggi tutto

In his excellent intro to his translation of this text, Handford gives the reader a good glimpse of just how exceptional a person Julius Caesar was. Incomparable field general, adept politician, accomplished statesman, a very real care for the advancement of Roman civilization / improvements for its Leggi tutto

XXV. (1) Mientras se luchaba en todas partes, pasado ya el resto de la noche, renovándose continuamente en los enemigos la esperanza de la victoria, sobre todo al ver quemadas las cubiertas de nuestras torres y advertir la dificultad de llevar socorro a pecho descubierto; relevando ellos continuamen Leggi tutto

Sublimely lucid and rich in detail without going off on tangents.

Not only was Caesar a master self-promoter and consummate politician, but he could wield the pen with a stylistic flourish: The Gallic Wars hums along in double time, marching the reader through the entire lengthy invasion and pacification campaign of non- Narbonensis Gaul. Really, Caesar offers it a Leggi tutto