TY - BOOK ID - 86134260 TI - Julius Caesar and the Roman people PY - 2021 SN - 1108943268 1108944019 1108950248 1108837840 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Political leadership KW - History. KW - Caesar, Julius. KW - Caesar, Julius KW - Influence. KW - Rome KW - Politics and government KW - History, Military KW - Kings and rulers. KW - Leadership KW - Caesar, Caius Julius KW - César KW - Cesare KW - Caesar, Gaius Julius KW - Caesar, Gaius Iulius KW - Caesar, Caius Iulius KW - Caesar, C. Iuluis KW - Caesar, C. Julius KW - Caesar, Cajus Julius KW - Caesar, G. J. KW - Cäsar, Julius KW - Cèsar, G. Juli KW - Cèsar, Gai Juli KW - Cesar, Gayo Julio KW - César, Jules KW - César, Julio, KW - Cesare, C. Iulio KW - Cesare, C. Julio KW - Cesare, Caio Giulio KW - Cesare, Gaio Giulio KW - Cesare, Giulio KW - Cezar, Juliusz KW - Gaius Julius Caesar KW - I︠U︡liĭ T︠S︡ezarʹ KW - Julius Caesar KW - Julius Caesar, Gaius KW - Juliusz Cezar KW - Kʻai-sa KW - Kaisa KW - T︠S︡ezarʹ, I︠U︡liĭ KW - צעזר, יוליוס KW - קיסר, יוליוס KW - יוליוס, קיסר UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86134260 AB - Julius Caesar was no aspiring autocrat seeking to realize the imperial future but an unusually successful republican leader who was measured against the Republic's traditions and its greatest heroes of the past. Catastrophe befell Rome not because Caesar (or anyone else) turned against the Republic, its norms and institutions, but because Caesar's extraordinary success mobilized a determined opposition which ultimately preferred to precipitate civil war rather than accept its political defeat. Based on painstaking re-analysis of the ancient sources in the light of recent advances in our understanding of the participatory role of the People in the republican political system, a strong emphasis on agents' choices rather than structural causation, and profound scepticism toward the facile determinism that often substitutes for historical explanation, this book offers a radical reinterpretation of a figure of profound historical importance who stands at the turning point of Roman history from Republic to Empire. ER -