Cleopatra's Kidnappers: How Caesar's Sixth Legion Gave Egypt to Rome and Rome to Caesar.(Book review)

From: The Historian | Date: December 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Cleopatra's Kidnappers: How Caesar's Sixth Legion Gave Egypt to Rome and Rome to Caesar. By Stephen Dando-Collins. (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2006. Pp. xviii, 276. $24.95.)

Biographers from Suetonius and Plutarch to M. Gelzer and C. Meier have regarded Caesar's failure to follow up his victory at Pharsalus in 48 BC, his intervention in Ptolemaic politics, and his "dalliance" in Alexandria with Cleopatra while his forces were mired in a savage, seven-month urban war, as a reckless adventure. In this third, popular, novel-like book on famous Roman legions, the author ...

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