Author: Josiah Osgood
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192859560
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when personal pride overrides the common good. In Uncommon Wrath, historian Josiah Osgood tells the story of how the political rivalry between Julius Caesar and Marcus Cato precipitated the end of the Roman Republic. As the champions of two dominant but distinct visions for Rome, Caesar and Cato each represented qualities that had made the Republic strong, but their ideological differences entrenched into enmity and mutual fear. The intensity of their collective factions became a tribal divide, hampering their ability to make good decisions and undermining democratic government. The men's toxic polarity meant that despite their shared devotion to the Republic, they pushed it into civil war. Deeply researched and compellingly told, Uncommon Wrath is a groundbreaking biography of two men whose hatred for each other destroyed the world they loved.
Uncommon Wrath
Author: Josiah Osgood
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192859560
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when personal pride overrides the common good. In Uncommon Wrath, historian Josiah Osgood tells the story of how the political rivalry between Julius Caesar and Marcus Cato precipitated the end of the Roman Republic. As the champions of two dominant but distinct visions for Rome, Caesar and Cato each represented qualities that had made the Republic strong, but their ideological differences entrenched into enmity and mutual fear. The intensity of their collective factions became a tribal divide, hampering their ability to make good decisions and undermining democratic government. The men's toxic polarity meant that despite their shared devotion to the Republic, they pushed it into civil war. Deeply researched and compellingly told, Uncommon Wrath is a groundbreaking biography of two men whose hatred for each other destroyed the world they loved.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192859560
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when personal pride overrides the common good. In Uncommon Wrath, historian Josiah Osgood tells the story of how the political rivalry between Julius Caesar and Marcus Cato precipitated the end of the Roman Republic. As the champions of two dominant but distinct visions for Rome, Caesar and Cato each represented qualities that had made the Republic strong, but their ideological differences entrenched into enmity and mutual fear. The intensity of their collective factions became a tribal divide, hampering their ability to make good decisions and undermining democratic government. The men's toxic polarity meant that despite their shared devotion to the Republic, they pushed it into civil war. Deeply researched and compellingly told, Uncommon Wrath is a groundbreaking biography of two men whose hatred for each other destroyed the world they loved.
Caesar's Legacy
Author: Josiah Osgood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521855829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
In April 44 BC the eighteen-year-old Gaius Octavius landed in Italy and launched his take-over of the Roman world. Defeating first Caesar's assassins, then the son of Pompey the Great, and finally Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, he dismantled the old Republic, took on the new name 'Augustus', and ruled forty years more with his equally remarkable wife Livia. Caesar's Legacy grippingly retells the story of Augustus' rise to power by focusing on how the bloody civil wars which he and his soldiers fought transformed the lives of men and women throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond. During this violent period citizens of Rome and provincials came to accept a new form of government and found ways to celebrate it. Yet they also mourned, in literary masterpieces and stories passed on to their children, the terrible losses they endured throughout the long years of fighting.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521855829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
In April 44 BC the eighteen-year-old Gaius Octavius landed in Italy and launched his take-over of the Roman world. Defeating first Caesar's assassins, then the son of Pompey the Great, and finally Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, he dismantled the old Republic, took on the new name 'Augustus', and ruled forty years more with his equally remarkable wife Livia. Caesar's Legacy grippingly retells the story of Augustus' rise to power by focusing on how the bloody civil wars which he and his soldiers fought transformed the lives of men and women throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond. During this violent period citizens of Rome and provincials came to accept a new form of government and found ways to celebrate it. Yet they also mourned, in literary masterpieces and stories passed on to their children, the terrible losses they endured throughout the long years of fighting.
The National Preacher and Village Pulpit
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Category : Sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Category : Sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Caledon's Tears: or, Wallace. A tragedy [in five acts and in verse].
Author: Gabriel NISBET
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Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Languages : en
Pages : 76
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The National Preacher Or Original Monthly Sermons from Living Ministers
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
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The National Preacher
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by Alexander Pope, Etc
Author: Homer
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Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Languages : en
Pages : 276
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The American National Preacher
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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The Odyssey of Homer
Author: Homer
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope
Author: Homer
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Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Languages : en
Pages : 500
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