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Caesar: Life of a Colossus de Adrian Goldsworthy

Caesar: Life of a Colossus: Istoria Romei

Autor Adrian Goldsworthy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 ian 2008

Imaginați-vă un tânăr aristocrat roman, captiv la bordul unei nave de pirați, refuzând să se comporte ca un prizonier și cerându-le răpitorilor să-și dubleze prețul răscumpărării, promițându-le totodată că îi va executa imediat ce va fi liber. Acesta este misterul și aroganța lui Caius Iulius Caesar, omul care a refuzat să accepte limitele impuse de destin sau de Senat. Notăm cu interes modul în care Adrian Goldsworthy reușește să deconstruiască mitul „colosului” pentru a scoate la iveală un personaj de o complexitate amețitoare: preot al unui cult exotic, avocat sclipitor, amant al soțiilor rivalilor săi politici și, în final, arhitectul prăbușirii Republicii. Ca și Julius Caesar de Philip Freeman, această biografie transformă documentele prăfuite în narațiune vie, însă Goldsworthy adaugă o rigoare academică ce lipsește adesea lucrărilor comerciale. Ne-a atras atenția în mod deosebit capacitatea autorului de a integra cariera militară a lui Caesar în țesătura socială a Romei, explicând nu doar cum a câștigat bătăliile, ci și de ce autoritatea sa rezonează și astăzi. În contextul operei sale, dacă în serii de ficțiune precum The Fort sau The City autorul explorează viața soldaților de la frontiere, aici el revine la centrul puterii, aplicând aceeași atenție pentru detaliul istoric și ritmul alert care l-au consacrat. Este o lucrare monumentală care refuză simplificările, prezentându-ne un Caesar care este, simultan, un vizionar politic și un rebel periculos.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780300126891
ISBN-10: 0300126891
Pagini: 608
Ilustrații: 16 pp. b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
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De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această biografie cititorilor care doresc să înțeleagă tranziția Romei de la Republică la Imperiu prin prisma celui mai influent lider al său. Veți câștiga o perspectivă clară asupra mecanismelor puterii și a modului în care carisma personală poate modela istoria. Este o lectură esențială pentru pasionații de istorie antică și strategie militară care caută rigoare factuală prezentată într-un stil narativ captivant.

Despre autor

Adrian Keith Goldsworthy (născut în 1969) este un renumit istoric britanic și romancier, specializat în istoria Romei antice. Cu un doctorat obținut la Universitatea Oxford, el a devenit una dintre cele mai respectate voci în domeniu, îmbinând cercetarea academică minuțioasă cu talentul de povestitor. Autor de succes, Goldsworthy a scris atât lucrări de non-ficțiune despre armata romană și marii săi lideri, cât și romane istorice care aduc la viață atmosfera sângeroasă și politizată a frontierelor imperiale. Expertiza sa este evidentă în modul în care analizează sursele antice pentru a oferi portrete umane veridice figurilor istorice.

Recenzii

"[An] excellent biography. . . . Goldsworthy tells this story with great skill and narrative force . . . [he] provides a great deal of vivid detail."—Mark Miller, Wall Street Journal
 
"An authoritative and exciting portrait not only of Caesar but of the complex society in which he lived."—Steven Coates, New York Times Book Review
 
"A rich and remarkably complete panorama of the times and the man. . . . The best introduction to Caesar and his world that is currently available."—Karl Galinsky, Bookforum
 
"This book makes and insightfully explains the leap from Caesar the soldier and general to Caesar the statesman and nation builder. It's better than any book I've ever read on him, and more incisive."—Wall Street Journal (cited by Leo J. Hindery Jr., CEO of InterMedia Partners VII LLP, as recommended reading of biographies and autobiographies of great leaders for those plotting a career path to the corner office)
 
"The man who virtually defined the West's concept of leadership comes alive in this splendid biography. Military historian Goldsworthy gives a comprehensive, vigorous account of Caesar's conquest of Gaul and his victories in the civil war that made him master of Rome. But he doesn't stint on the nonmartial aspects of Caesar's life—his dandyism, his flagrant womanizing (which didn't stop enemies from gay-baiting him), his supple political genius and the flair for drama and showmanship that cowed mutinous legionaries and courted Rome's restive masses. Goldsworthy's is a sympathetic profile. . . . More compellingly than most biographies, Goldsworthy's exhaustive, lucid, elegantly written life makes its subject the embodiment of his age."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
"This is an engaging and well-drawn resource for those who wish to be introduced to the man who was Caesar. . . . Additions to Goldsworthy's text include a chronology of key events, a glossary, and notes. Recommended for academic and larger public libraries."—Library Journal
 
"Adrian Goldsworthy's new biography, Caesar: Life of a Colossus, succeeds in capturing all the drama and  complexity of this best-known of lives. Mr. Goldsworthy, a prolific young British classicist, has real narrative gifts, as well as an encyclopedic knowledge of late republican Rome. Together, these strengths make Caesar one of  the most fascinating biographies you will come across this year."—Adam Kirsch, New York Sun
 
"Eternally intriguing history readers, the end of the Roman Republic receives astute analysis and dramatic narration in Goldsworthy's life of Caesar."—Booklist

"Lively and accessible."—Mike Oppenheim, Journal ofMilitary History

"[Goldsworthy] succeeds in returning the man to his time and place and reminds us how it all could have been very different."—Blake D. Dvorak, Washington Times
 
"Monumental. . . . [Goldsworthy] writes with great style."—Atlantic Monthly

"Excellent and very readable. . . . Designed for the general reader or a lover of history and [it is a] reading experience of the first order."—David Walton, MilwaukeeJournal Sentinel

"Caesar: Life of a Colossus . . .is a superb and absorbing life of the man who came, saw and conquered—and then was murdered for his trouble."—J. Peder Zane, News and Observer

"Noteworthy. . . . Goldsworthy gives a thorough account of Caesar’s military accomplishments as well as painting a vivid portrait of both the man and the power-hungry world he inhabited."—Christian Science Monitor

"Goldsworthy’s deep knowledge of Caesar’s times makes it possible to fill in all sorts of details on education, military affairs, marriage customs, but most of all on the ferocious politics of Caesar’s time. . . . [A] fine biography which brings, in prose which is never pedantic or dull, depth, color and context to his amazing life and interesting times."—John Lisenmeyer, Greenwich Times

"It gives me great pleasure to give Caesar the strongest possible recommendation. Caesar was a complex character living in confusing times, but Adrian Goldsworthy tackles the subject with a vigor, thoroughness and clarity of purpose that the great man himself would have approved of."—Philip Sidnell, Editor, Ancient and Medieval History Book Club (London)

"Goldsworthy's book will remain the definitive biography of Caesar for years to come."—Philip Matyszak, author of The Sons of Caesar: Imperial Rome's First Dynasty

"Adrian Goldsworthy is one of our most promising young military historians today."—Sir John Keegan, author of The Iraq War

"Adrian Goldsworthy is one of the new generation of young classicists who combine scholarship with storytelling to bring the ancient world to life. In his masterly new Caesar, he shows us the greatest Roman as man, statesman, soldier, and lover."—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

"Caesar is an accessible, balanced, and highly readable contribution to our understanding of one of Rome's most complex characters. No one writing in English today knows more about Roman military history than Adrian Goldsworthy."—Guy MacLean Rogers, author of Alexander: The Ambiguity of Greatness

Notă biografică

Adrian Goldsworthy read history at Oxford and is the author of The Roman Army at War, The Punic Wars, and other books about the ancient world. He lives in Wales.
 

Descriere

Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor’s life, Goldsworthy covers not only the great Roman emperor’s accomplishments as charismatic orator, conquering general, and powerful dictator but also lesser-known chapters during which he was high priest of an exotic cult, captive of pirates, seducer not only of Cleopatra but also of the wives of his two main political rivals, and rebel condemned by his own country. Ultimately, Goldsworthy realizes the full complexity of Caesar’s character and shows why his political and military leadership continues to resonate some two thousand years later.

In the introduction to his biography of the great Roman emperor, Adrian Goldsworthy writes, “Caesar was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator . . . as well as husband, father, lover and adulterer.” In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as military leader, all of these roles and places his subject firmly within the context of Roman society in the first century B.C.