Caesar Versus Pompey: Determining Rome's Greatest General, Statesman & Nation-Builder - Stephen Dando-collins

Descriere Caesar Versus Pompey: Determining Rome's Greatest General, Statesman & Nation-Builder - Stephen Dando-collins

Who was Rome's greatest general, statesman, and nation-builder: \nCaesar or Pompey? \n\n \nFew people have had as many words written about them down through \nthe centuries as Julius Caesar--the brilliant general who made Queen Cleopatra \nof Egypt his mistress. He has captured the imagination of playwrights, \nhistorians, soldiers, and emperors.\n \nLittle has been written about his ally, son-in-law, and eventual \nenemy Pompey the Great, who crashed onto the Roman scene as a victorious \ntwenty-three-year-old general and who, at the height of his career, was arguably \nmore famous, more popular, and more successful than Caesar.\n \nCaesar Versus Pompey tells the parallel life stories of \nJulius Caesar and Pompey the Great, as their lives and loves became intertwined and \ninterdependent, as they grew from rivals to partners, then from joint rulers to \nwarring foes. One strove to preserve the Roman Republic, the other destroyed \nit.\n \nWho was Rome's greatest general, statesman, and nation-builder: \nCaesar or Pompey? \n\n \nFew people have had as many words written about them down through \nthe centuries as Julius Caesar-the brilliant general who made Queen Cleopatra \nof Egypt his mistress. He has captured the imagination of playwrights, \nhistorians, soldiers, and emperors.\n \nLittle has been written about his ally, son-in-law, and eventual \nenemy Pompey the Great, who crashed onto the Roman scene as a victorious \ntwenty-three-year-old general and who, at the height of his career, was arguably \nmore famous, more popular, and more successful than Caesar.\n \nCaesar Versus Pompey tells the parallel life stories of \nJulius Caesar and Pompey the Great, as their lives and loves became intertwined and \ninterdependent, as they grew from rivals to partners, then from joint rulers to \nwarring foes. One strove to preserve the Roman Republic, the other destroyed \nit.\n

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