History of Julius Caesar. Jacob Abbott

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       Jacob Abbott

      History of Julius Caesar

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664142252

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       PREFACE.

       ENGRAVINGS.

       JULIUS CAESAR.

       CHAPTER I.

       MARIUS AND SYLLA.

       CHAPTER II.

       CAESAR'S EARLY YEARS.

       CHAPTER III.

       ADVANCEMENT TO THE CONSULSHIP.

       CHAPTER IV.

       THE CONQUEST OF GAUL.

       CHAPTER V.

       POMPEY.

       CHAPTER VI.

       CROSSING THE RUBICON.

       CHAPTER VII.

       THE BATTLE OF PHARSALIA.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       FLIGHT AND DEATH OF POMPEY.

       CHAPTER IX.

       CAESAR IN EGYPT.

       CHAPTER X.

       CAESAR IMPERATOR.

       CHAPTER XI.

       THE CONSPIRACY.

       CHAPTER XII.

       THE ASSASSINATION.

PREFACE.

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      It is the object of this series of histories to present a clear, distinct, and connected narrative of the lives of those great personages who have in various ages of the world made themselves celebrated as leaders among mankind, and, by the part they have taken in the public affairs of great nations, have exerted the widest influence on the history of the human race. The end which the author has had in view is twofold: first, to communicate such information in respect to the subjects of his narratives as is important for the general reader to possess; and, secondly, to draw such moral lessons from the events described and the characters delineated as they may legitimately teach to the people of the present age. Though written in a direct and simple style, they are intended for, and addressed to, minds possessed of some considerable degree of maturity, for such minds only can fully appreciate the character and action which exhibits itself, as nearly all that is described in these volumes does, in close combination with the conduct and policy of governments, and the great events of international history.

ENGRAVINGS.

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      THE PIRATES AT ANCHOR. MAP OF ROME. ROMAN PLEBEIANS. A ROMAN FORUM. THE LANDING IN ENGLAND. CROSSING THE RUBICON. ROMAN STANDARD-BEARERS. DEATH OF POMPEY. POMPEY'S PILLAR. CLEOPATRA'S BARGE. THE ELEPHANTS MADE TORCH-BEARERS. POMPEY'S STATUE. BURNING OF CAESAR'S BODY.

      

ANCIENT ROME.

JULIUS CAESAR.

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CHAPTER I.

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MARIUS AND SYLLA.

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      Three great European nations of antiquity.

      There were three great European nations in ancient days, each of which furnished history with a hero: the Greeks, the Carthaginians, and the Romans.

      Alexander.

      Alexander was the hero of the Greeks. He was King of Macedon, a country lying north of Greece proper. He headed an army of his countrymen, and made an excursion for conquest and glory into Asia. He made himself master of all that quarter of the globe, and reigned over it in Babylon, till he brought himself to an early grave by the excesses into which his boundless prosperity allured him. His fame rests on his triumphant success in building up for himself so vast an empire, and the admiration which his career has always excited among mankind is heightened by the consideration of his youth, and of the noble and generous impulses which strongly