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Home eBooks & eLearning   Following Caesar: From Rome to Constantinople, the Pathways That Planted the Seeds of Empire

Following Caesar
by John Keahey

English | 2023 | ISBN: 1250792401 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 24.97 MB

 


A travel narrative following three ancient roads and looking at more than two thousand years of history of Ancient Rome through the modern eye.
In 66 b.c., young, ambitious Julius Caesar, seeking recognition and authority, became the curator of the Via Appia, a road stretching from Rome to Brindisi. To gain popularity with Roman citizens along the way, he borrowed significant sums to restore the ancient highway. He eventually achieved greatness in Rome and the far reaches of Gaul, leading armies along the Via Appia and its sister road, the Via Egnatia, across the Balkans, to battle enemies in Roman civil wars.
Other armies followed these two roads that eventually connected Rome to Constantinople, today's Istanbul. Both Octavian and, later, his friend-turned enemy Mark Antony traveled portions of these roads to defeat Caesar's murderers, Brutus and Cassius. The great Roman statesman Cicero, the Roman poet Homer, the historian Virgil, and many other notables also…

 

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