Josephine Quinn teaches ancient history at Worcester College, Oxford. Her new book, In Search of the Phoenicians, has just been published. (March 2018)
The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works: Gallic War, Civil War, Alexandrian War, African War, and Spanish War
edited and translated from the Latin by Kurt A. Raaflaub
When Julius Caesar was thirty-one years old in 69 BCE, so the story goes, and serving as a junior Roman magistrate in Spain, he once stood lamenting before a statue of Alexander the Great because he had achieved so little at an age by which Alexander had already conquered the world. He had good reason for concern.
