The Civil Wars

By: Appian, John M. Carter

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Paperback | 1 January 1989 | Edition Number 1

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The only suriving continuous narrative source for the events between 133 and 70 BC

Appian's writings vividly describe Catiline's conspiracy, the rise and fall of the First Triumvirate, and Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon, defeat of Pompey and untimely death. The climax comes with the brith of the Second Triumvirate out of anarchy, the terrible purges of Proscriptions which followed and the titanic struggle for world mastery which was only to end with Augustus's defeat of Antony and Cleopatra.

If Appian's Roman History as a whole reveals how an empire was born of the struggle against a series of external enemis, these five books concentrate on an even greater ordeal. Despite the rhetorical flourishes, John Carter suggests in his Introductions, the impressive 'overall conception of the decline of the Roman state into violence, with its sombre highlights and the leitmotif of fate, is neither trivial nor inaccurate.'

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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This is an extract from what survives of the enormous history of Rome from the kings to his own time by the 2nd-century Alexandrian writer, Appian. It covers the increasing violence that changed the face of Roman politics and society from Tiberius Gracchus, through the enormously influential struggles of Sulla and Marius, Caesar and Pompey, to Octavian nad Mark Antony (though not the resolution at Actium). The dense narrative has a relentless momentum, relating the birth of an empire through its internal conflicts. The translation is supported by a very thorough introduction, an appendix covering Roman social organization, and maps. This is a book for lovers of the history of power struggles, and for students of the period who wish to compare this verison of famous events with those of other, sometimes better-known, Roman historians. (Kirkus UK)

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