The Civil Wars

Taken from Appian’s Roman History, the five books collected here from the sole surviving continuous historical narrative of the era between 133 and 35 BC-a time of anarchy and instability for the Roman Empire. A maesterly account of a turbulent epoch, they describe the Caitlin conspiracy; the rise and fall of the First Triumvirate; the murder of Julius Caesar; the formation of the Second Triumvirate by Antonius, Octavian and Lepidus; and brutal civil war. A compelling depiction of the decline of the Roman state into brutality and violence, The Civil Wars portrays political discontent, selfishness and the struggle for power-a struggle that was to culminate in a titanic battle for mastery over the Roman Empire, and the deaf to Antony and cleopatra by Octavian in 31 BC.

Pages: 436