The Conquest of Gaul
Translator: Han-young Kim
Publisher: Sa-i
397 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres...
It is, perhaps, the most famous opening line of any memoir in Western
civilization. What Caesar and the Romans called "Gaul," although we usually
think of it as France, also comprised Belgium, the German lands west of the
Rhine, southern Holland, and much of Switzerland.
The Conquest of Gaul (aka: Commentarii De Bello Galiico) is the only military
campaign of the ancient world for which we have a chronicle written by the
general who conducted it, and Julius Caesar is an insightful historian, with a
keen eye for detail, as in this scene from the repulsion of the forces of the
German king Ariovistus:
"Caesar placed each of his five generals ahead of a legion and detailed his
quaestor to command the remaining legion, so that every soldier might know that
there was a high officer in a position to observe the courage with which he
conducted himself, and then led the right wing first into action, because he had
noticed that the enemy's line was weakest on that side."
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