Caesar: Life of a Colossus

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Annotation.;Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Map List -- Introduction -- Part I. THE RISE TO THE CONSULSHIP 100�59 BC -- 1 Caesar�s World -- 2 Caesar�s Childhood -- 3 The First Dictator -- 4 The Young Caesar -- 5 Candidate -- 6 Conspiracy -- 7 Scandal -- 8 Consul -- Part II. PROCONSUL 58�50 BC -- 9 Gaul -- 10 Migrants and mercenaries: The First Campaigns, 58 BC -- 11 �The Bravest of the Gaulish Peoples�: The Belgae, 57 BC -- 12 Politics and War: the Conference of Luca -- 13 �Over the waters�: The British and German Expeditions, 55� 54 BC Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Map List -- Introduction -- Part I. THE RISE TO THE CONSULSHIP 100�59 BC -- 1 Caesar�s World -- 2 Caesar�s Childhood -- 3 The First Dictator -- 4 The Young Caesar -- 5 Candidate -- 6 Conspiracy -- 7 Scandal -- 8 Consul -- Part II. PROCONSUL 58�50 BC -- 9 Gaul -- 10 Migrants and mercenaries: The First Campaigns, 58 BC -- 11 �The Bravest of the Gaulish Peoples�: The Belgae, 57 BC -- 12 Politics and War: the Conference of Luca -- 13 �Over the waters�: The British and German Expeditions, 55� 54 BC 14 Rebellion, Disaster and Vengeance15 The Man and the Hour: Vercingetorix and the Great Revolt, 52 BC -- 16 �All Gaul is Conquered� -- Part III. CIVIL WAR AND DICTATORSHIP 49�44 BC -- 17 The Road to the Rubicon -- 18 Blitzkrieg: Italy and Spain, Winter�Autumn, 49 BC -- 19 Macedonia, November 49�August 48 BC -- 20 Cleopatra, Egypt and the East, Autumn 48�Summer 47 BC -- 21 Africa, September 47�June 46 BC -- 22 Dictator, 46� 44 -- The Ides of March -- Epilogue -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Abbreviations