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Bezig met laden... The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar (editie 2020)door Peter Stothard (Auteur)
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Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined to kill the killers. From the spring of 44 BC through one of the most dramatic and influential periods in history, Caesar's adopted son, Octavian, the future Emperor Augustus, exacted vengeance on the assassins of the Ides of March, not only on Brutus and Cassius, immortalized by Shakespeare, but all the others too, each with his own individual story. The last assassin left alive was one of the lesser-known: Cassius Parmensis was a poet and sailor who chose every side in the dying Republic's civil wars except the winning one, a playwright whose work was said to have been stolen and published by the man sent to kill him. Parmensis was in the back row of the plotters, many of them Caesar's friends, who killed for reasons of the highest political principles and lowest personal piques. For fourteen years he was the most successful at evading his hunters but has been barely a historical foot note--until now. The Last Assassin dazzlingly charts an epic turn of history through the eyes of an unheralded man. It is a history of a hunt that an emperor wanted to hide, of torture and terror, politics and poetry, of ideas and their consequences, a gripping story of fear, revenge, and survival. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)937.05092History and Geography Ancient World Italian Peninsula to 476 and adjacent territories to 476 Italian Peninsula to 476 and adjacent territories to 476 Civil strife 146-21 B.C. BiographyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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As a fan of Republican Rome I thought this work was truly a page turner. By any standards, the characters involved are some of the most compelling in history. I appreciated the author's attempt to present a point of view of the assassins which is often completely overlooked.
My only complaint is that the author, unlike Caesar, sometimes drifted from a concise style, instead unnecessarily using passive instead of active tenses and writing in a vague and flowery fashion that could sometimes be difficult to read.
Nonetheless, the book is an excellent account of this fascinating period. ( )