Julius Caesar - Philip Freeman
Category: Autobiography & Biographies
Narrator: James Cameron Stewart
Tags: Autobiography & Biographies, History, Military, Adults
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc. Release date: May 21, 2019 Duration: 14:44:45, More than two thousand years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of the great figures of history. He shaped Rome for generations, and his name became a synonym for emperor-not only in Rome but as far away as Germany and Russia. He is best known as the general who defeated the Gauls and doubled the size of Romes territories. But, as Philip Freeman describes in this fascinating new biography, Caesar was also a brilliant orator, an accomplished writer, a skilled politician, and much more., Julius Caesar was a complex man, both hero and villain. He possessed great courage, ambition, honor, and vanity. Born into a noble family that had long been in decline, he advanced his career cunningly, beginning as a priest and eventually becoming Romes leading general. He made alliances with his rivals and then discarded them when it suited him. He was a spokesman for the ordinary people of Rome, who rallied around him
