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- The book takes its title from the river Rubicon in the northern Italian peninsula. In 49 BC, Julius Caesar crossed this river with his army and marched on Rome, breaking a sacred law of the Roman Republic and throwing the nation into a civil war.
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378. ISBN. 978-1-4000-7897-4. LC Class. DG266 .H64 2005. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic, or Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic, is a popular history book written by Tom Holland, published in 2003. The book tells the story of the end of the Roman Republic and the consequent establishment of the Roman Empire.
- Tom Holland
- 2003
Tom Holland’s Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic makes it easy to understand why the fall of Rome still animates the imaginations of contemporary scholars and history enthusiasts. Striking a deft balance between erudition and accessibility, Holland’s narrative is replete with lush sensory details that bring the Roman Republic’s ...
Jan 1, 2003 · In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Holland’s enthralling account tells the story of Caesar’s generation, witness to the twilight of the Republic and its bloody transformation into an empire.
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Mar 8, 2005 · In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Holland’s...
In "Rubicon," Cambridge- and Oxford-educated historian and novelist Tom Holland gives us a harrowing and exciting account of the fall of the Republic, one that begins in 100 BC, the approximate...
- Tom Holland
- Doubleday, 2003
- illustrated
- Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Feb 17, 2004 · Holland chronicles the rise to power of such leaders as Sulla Felix, Pompey, Cicero and Julius Caesar. Some of these leaders, such as Pompey, appealed to the masses by expanding the republic through military conquest; others, like Cicero, worked to reinforce class distinctions.
Author: Tom Holland. Summary: One January morning, Julius Caesar, the governor of Gaul, arrived at a river named the Rubicon, which marked the frontier with Italy. A governor was forbidden to lead troops out of his province, but Caesar was a gambler.
