

Julius Caesar
Author: Philip Freeman
Narrator: James Cameron Stewart
Unabridged: 14 hr 44 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 05/21/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Military Nonfiction
Synopsis
Julius Caesar was a complex man, both hero and villain. He possessed great courage, ambition, honor, and vanity. Born into a noble family that had long been in decline, he advanced his career cunningly, beginning as a priest and eventually becoming Rome's leading general. He made alliances with his rivals and then discarded them when it suited him. He was a spokesman for the ordinary people of Rome, who rallied around him time and again, but he profited enormously from his conquests and lived opulently. Eventually he was murdered in one of the most famous assassinations in history.
In this splendid biography, Freeman presents Julius Caesar in all his dimensions and contradictions. This book will captivate listeners discovering Caesar and ancient Rome for the first time as well as those who have a deep interest in the classical world.