Barry Strauss is a professor of history and classics at Cornell University, The Corliss Page Dean Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a leading expert on ancient military history. He has written or edited several books, including The Battle of Salamis, The Trojan War, The Spartacus War, Masters of Command, The Death of Caesar, and Ten Caesars. Visit BarryStrauss.com.
"Barry Strauss has a rare gift for the crafting of narrative
history: in his hands, figures who had seemed forever frozen in
marble breathe again. The Death of Caesar deftly depicts a world in
which tangled motives, Machiavellian strategies, and a dose of
sheer accident conspired to bring down the most powerful man in the
world."
*Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became
Modern*
"[A] compelling, clarifying account of one of history's most
dramatic assassinations. . . . [Strauss] conveys the complexity of
late republican Roman politics while keeping up a lively pace."
*Time*
“Strauss’ account of the world’s most famous assassination is as
thrilling as any novel.”
*Robert Harris, bestselling author of the Ancient Rome Trilogy*
“[A] page-turner. . . . Detail after detail clothes the familiar
facts of Caesar’s seemingly inevitable murder with fresh images. .
. . The last bloody day of the Republic has never been painted so
brilliantly."
*The Wall Street Journal*
“With keen historical insights and the pace of a thriller, Barry
Strauss brings vividly to life the Rome of 44 B.C., the final days
of Julius Caesar, and the men who killed him. This is history as it
should be written—a deeply human story of all the men and women
caught up in these famous events.”
*Adrian Goldsworthy, author of Augustus: First Emperor of Rome*
“The superb storytelling of Barry Strauss shows that the details of
history's most famous assassination are just as fascinating as why
it happened. . . . The Death of Caesar provides a fresh look at a
well-trodden event, with storytelling sure to inspire awe.”
*The Philadelphia Inquirer*
“I have never read so detailed an account of the world’s most
famous assassination—how the plot was planned, the many
personalities, the killing itself and the bitter aftermath. The
Death of Caesar brings back all the suspense of an extraordinary
story, as if we weren’t sure what was going to happen next. An
unputdownable book.”
*Anthony Everitt, author of CICERO*
“This history of Caesar by the American academic Barry Strauss is a
romp, yes, but a glorious one, through the final months of Rome’s
most famous ruler. . . . One of the most riveting hour-by-hour
accounts of Caesar’s final day I have read. . . . An absolutely
marvelous read.”
*The Times (London)*
"Barry Strauss, as both sleuth and classicist, guides us through
the why and how of the killing of Julius Caesar. A riveting
blow-by-blow account by a masterful scholar and story-teller of a
human drama that changed the course of Western history."
*Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford
University and author of THE SAVIOR GENERALS and CARNAGE AND
CULTURE*
"This stupendous book has all the pace and action of a top-quality
thriller—murder, lust, betrayal and high politics—yet it's all
true, and comes from the pen of the world's senior academic expert
in the field. A lifetime's study of the ancient sources has gone
into Barry Strauss's utterly gripping account of the day that the
course of human history radically changed. Superbly researched,
wittily written, but above all driven by a truly exciting narrative
that never lets up, this is history-writing at its best. Our
understanding of what happened on the Ides of March and its
chaotic, bloody aftermath is forever changed, and this will be the
standard work for decades to come."
*Andrew Roberts, author of NAPOLEON: A Life*
“I always knew the plunging of those fatal daggers was an epochal
moment in Western Civ, but I never knew why – until now. Barry
Strauss is our all-knowing Vergil, escorting us across the dim
landscape of history, enlightening us with precious insight.”
*Steven Pressfield, bestselling author of GATES OF FIRE and THE
LION'S GATE*
“A classics thriller. . . . The Death of Caesar teases apart this
paramilitary operation of 60 or more conspirators and, in reporting
the facts, revokes much of Shakespeare’s poetic license in ‘Julius
Caesar.’”
*The Boston Globe*
“Strauss takes us deep into the psyche of ancient history in an
exciting, twisted tale."
*Kirkus Reviews (starred review)*
“This engrossing account of that pivotal event is exhaustive, yet
surprisingly easy to read. . . . The Death of Caesar is brimming
with memorable facts.”
*Barron's*
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