"Can Alexander Hamilton possibly have been right that Julius Caesar
was 'the greatest man who ever lived'? Reading Philip Freeman's
pacy and panoptic narrative of Caesar's life from unpromising early
beginnings to the fateful Ides is one very rewarding approach to
answering that perennially fascinating question." -- Paul
Cartledge, Professor of Greek History, University of Cambridge
"Elegant, learned, and compulsively readable, "Julius Caesar" moves
from broad sweep to brilliant detail. Freeman triumphantly tells
the story of one of history's greatest and most terrible figures.
He is as knowledgeable about Cleopatra's Alexandria as he is about
Celtic tribes, and he writes about the Roman Senate with the
assurance of an insider." -- Barry Strauss, author of "The Trojan
War" and Professor of History and Classics, Cornell University
"Julius Caesar packed more into his life than most of history's
great men -- and Philip Freeman unpacks it all with skill and
clarity. He takes the reader through every dizzying thrill and
spill. The scholar will find much to admire in this book, but,
better still, the newcomer to ancient Rome will turn its pages with
excitement, enlightenment -- and sheer narrative suspense." --
Anthony Everitt, author of "Augustus and Cicero"
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