Real Roman History29 Mai

Episode 48. The Rubicon and the Lightning Campaign: Caesar Against the Republic, Part One

Works CitedPrimary Sources

Appian. Civil Wars, Book 2. The most systematic political account of the breakdown; especially useful for the negotiations of 50 BCE.
Caesar. Commentarii de Bello Civili. Caesar's own account, written in the third person with characteristic lucidity and propagandistic purpose. Books 1–2 cover the Rubicon through the Spanish campaign. Essential, and must be read with awareness of its advocacy.
Cicero. Letters to Atticus, Books 7–8. The most honest real-time documentary record; Cicero writing to Atticus as the crisis unfolds, without self-censorship.
Plutarch. “Life of Caesar,” chapters 28–37. The Rubicon, the Italian campaign, and Spain. The Rubicon scene with the supernatural figure and the phrase is here.
Plutarch. “Life of Pompey,” chapters 57–62. The Senate crisis of 50–49 BCE and Pompey's flight from Italy. Reading Plutarch's Caesar and Pompey simultaneously is one of the great experiences in ancient biography.

Secondary Sources

Goldsworthy, Adrian. Caesar: Life of a Colossus. 2006. The most comprehensive modern biography; excellent on the mechanics of the political crisis and the military campaigns.
Holland, Tom. Rubicon. 2003. The most readable popular account of the whole period.
Meier, Christian. Caesar. Translated 1995. The most analytically ambitious modern treatment; argues Caesar was improvising rather than executing a long-term plan.

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