Fighting for Rome: Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War
- ISBN-10
- 0521580269
- ISBN-13
- 9780521580267
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 349
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-03-12
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- John Henderson
Description
An examination of the disjunction between the militaristic culture of classical Rome, and the domination of its history by civil war.
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