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Caesar and the emperors

Caesar · Augustus · Marcus Aurelius

Latin and Greek witnesses included

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Read a campaign, a public record and an emperor’s private reflections. Compare rival accounts and inspect historical siege plans.

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Caesar’s Gallic War VII, all of Augustus’s Res Gestae with its later Summary, and Meditations II–III. Selected Sallust, Tacitus and Pliny–Trajan correspondence provide other accounts.

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