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Rubicon, The last years of the roman republic., Tom Holland

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Rubicon, The last years of the roman republic., Tom Holland

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

1140, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rubicon

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

resource.readingGradeLevel

Text Difficulty 8 - Text Difficulty 9

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Tom Holland

Sub title

The last years of the roman republic.

Summary

A vivid historical account of the social world of Rome as it moved from republic to empire. 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. From Cicero, Spartacus, and Brutus, to Cleopatra, Virgil, and Augustus, here are some of the most legendary figures in history brought thrillingly to life. Combining verve and freshness with scrupulous scholarship, Rubicon is not only an engrossing history of this pivotal era but a uniquely resonant portrait of a great civilization in all its extremes of self-sacrifice and rivalry, decadence and catastrophe, intrigue, war, and world-shaking ambition

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