Название: Crossing the Rubicon: Caesar's Decision and the Fate of Rome
Автор: Luca Fezzi
Издательство: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300241453
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 384
Размер: 4,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
When the Senate ordered Julius Caesar, conqueror of Gaul, to disband his troops, he instead marched his soldiers across the Rubicon River, in violation of Roman law. The Senate turned to its proconsul, Pompey the Great, for help. But Pompey’s response was unexpected: he commanded magistrates and senators to abandon Rome—a city that, until then, had always been defended. The consequences were the ultimate crisis of the Roman Republic and the rise of Caesar’s autocracy.