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Laddar... Caesar (urspr publ 2006; utgåvan 2006)av A. Goldsworthy, Corrie van de Berg (Översättare), Carola Kloos (Översättare), Jan de Boer (Omslagsformgivare)
VerksinformationCaesar : en biografi av Adrian Goldsworthy (2006)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Although we know that Julius Caesar's life came to an abrupt end, reading the long book emphasied how abrupt it was. Caesar had packed so much into his life, things appeared to have settled down, and then with what appears to be little preparation and thought, a group of senators selfishly put an end to that life. This episode fills just a few pages of this 500 page book. The rest is spent on his early life as he positions himself, quite cheekily, for promotion. A bulk of the book is spent on his time on Gaul, where some of the details of troop movements in battle do tend to be a bit tedious. However, a book that is worth reading. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Julius Caesar ©Þr en av v©Þrldshistoriens mest inflytelserika m©Þn och hans liv var v©Ældsamt dramatiskt. Han har fr©Þmst uppm©Þrksammats som en lysande h©Þrf©œrare men var minst lika skicklig som politiker. Caesar lyckades er©œvra stora delar av dagens Europa och ©Þnd©Æ h©Ælla sig v©Þl med folket. ©ven Caesars privatliv ©Þr fascinerande, inte minst k©Þrlekslivet. Romansen med den mytomspunna egyptiska drottningen Kleopatra ©Þr bara en av m©Ænga. Caesar ©Þr den f©œrsta boken p©Æ senare ©Ær som tar upp alla sidor av Caesar - politikern, h©Þrf©œraren och mannen - i en och samma volym. Adrian Goldsworthy, f©œdd 1969, ©Þr en v©Þlk©Þnd brittisk milit©Þrhistoriker. [Elib] Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Goldsworthy claims Caesar and his contemporaries were influenced by his sense of auctoritas - usually translated as “authority”, although with a more subtle meaning connected with honor and influence; you could have auctoritas without actually being in a position of legal or political authority (for example, Roman women could have auctoritas if they were in a position to influence political outcomes, even if they had no political authority themselves). Goldsworthy attributes Caesar’s crucial decision to “cross the Rubicon” with his army as due to fear (probably quite correct) that his auctoritas would be diminished if he didn’t. (I was surprised to note that despite the fact that “crossing the Rubicon” has become idiomatic for taking an irreversible step, nobody knows exactly where the Rubicon was; several small streams are candidates).
As with any good book, Caesar raises a lot of questions; one that intrigues me is that Goldsworthy makes it clear that success in the Roman political system required huge amounts of money. What for, exactly? It’s not as if it was spent on TV ads. Similarly, where did the money come from? Rome, after all, had no large corporations or even individuals who had become rich though trade or manufacturing. It seems like the only way to become wealthy was to be appointed governor of a province and then skim tax collections (this is what Caesar did; the conquest of Gaul allowed him to pay off all the creditors who had supported him thus far and have massive amounts left over for bribery and army recruitment). Goldsworthy gives some hints about Roman economics but a detailed account would require a whole other book; I’ll have to do some research.
There’s a lot more fascinating stuff than mention; this is a very worthwhile book and an easy read. A plate section shows people and sites; there are good maps of most of Caesar’s battles (at least as far as events can be reconstructed). Recommended. ( )