Caesar Versus Pompey
Who was Rome’s greatest general, statesman, and nation-builder: Caesar or Pompey?
Few people have had as many words written about them down through the centuries than Julius Caesar—the brilliant general who made Queen Cleopatra of Egypt his mistress. He has captured the imagination of playwrights, historians, soldiers, and emperors.
Little has been written about his ally, son-in-law, and eventual enemy Pompey the Great, who crashed onto the Roman scene as a victorious twenty-three-year-old general and who, at the height of his career, was arguably more famous, more popular, and more successful than Caesar.
Caesar Versus Pompey tells the parallel life stories of Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great, as their lives and loves became intertwined and interdependent, as they grew from rivals to partners, then from joint rulers to warring foes. One strove to preserve the Roman Republic, the other destroyed it.
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Book details
- Author
- Stephen Dando-Collins
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 320
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Subjects
- History › Ancient › Rome
History › Military › Ancient
History › Wars & Conflicts - Topics
- Julius Caesar · Pompey the Great · Roman Republic · ancient Rome · military history · Roman generals · parallel biography · Roman civil war
- ISBN-13
- 9781684428960 (Hardcover)9781684428953 (Paperback)
About the author
STEPHEN DANDO-COLLINS is the author of nearly 50 books, spanning children’s novels, biographies, and military history from ancient Greece and Rome through World War I and World War II. His books have been translated into more than eight languages, including Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Albanian, and Korean.
Dando-Collins is considered an authority on the legions of ancient Rome, with decades of research culminating in Legions of Rome.
Stephen lives in Tasmania, Australia.