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Julius Caesar by Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Although endowed with oratorical and literary gifts, Julius Caesar is known to us primarily as a man of action. So it's not surprising that Bradford's popular biography is largely a succession of actions--most of them, also unsurprisingly, military actions. Caesar was indeed almost always fighting someone, either subjugating northern Europe, Britain, or Egypt, or engaged in civil war with the forces of Pompey. Bradford (Hannibal, Nelson, etc.) is reasonably good on the big campaigns and the big battles, apportioning judicious doses of praise, blame, or fortune as he sees fit (and he's aware, too, that most of Caesar's opponents were not well-trained troops). But on Caesar as a political figure, Bradford is on softer ground. Caesar, he claims, had finely honed political instincts; by this Bradford seems to mean that he knew how to pass around the spoils. The claim that Caesar's republican adversaries sealed the fate of republicanism when they assassinated him, bringing chaos to the order he had maintained and ushering in Imperial rule, has a nice ring to it; but there is not enough background to the conflict between Caesar, Cicero, Cato, and the rest to substantiate it. In short, al

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Author

Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford

Publisher

Universitas Verlag. in Langen Müller Verlag GmbH

Published

1985

Language

DE

ISBN

9783800410811

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

3.66 / 5 (31 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14