The Education of Julius Caesar: a Biography, a Reconstruction - Hardcover

Kahn, Arthur

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805240098 ISBN 13: 9780805240092

Publisher: Schocken, 1986

Synopsis

A biography of the Roman leader examines how events shaped his attitudes and character and how he influenced Roman history

About this title

About the Author:

Arthur Kahn served as an intelligence officer during WWII, obtained a doctorate degree at the age of 41 and held various teaching positions. He has published four books and numerous articles. Kahn reads nine languages and is a long-time resident of Brooklyn Heights in New York City.

From Publishers Weekly:

Julius Caesar expressed the will of his age and brought off his grandiose plans because, writes Kahn, he saw society as a thing in motion. A man of unbending will and inexhaustible energy, he possessed wide-ranging curiosity; his eloquence and wit charmed even his enemies. Although a dictator, Caesar refused to hunt "subversives" and rejected terror as a political weapon, according to this magisterial 608-page biography. Kahn, a former classics professor, clearly admires the ruler whom he sees as "the greatest personality" of the Roman era. Twelve years in preparation, the study welds ancient and modern sources, using semifictionalized techniques to bring the past to life: "Caesar was at an age to banter with girls and grin at prostitutes ogling him from windows and doorways," the author writes at one point. Readers who can accept this technique will find Kahn's meticulously researched biography absorbing, and convincing in its re-creation of the social and political turmoil of the late Republic.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Schocken
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0805240098
• ISBN 13: 9780805240092
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 524