Download or read book Caesar's Gallic Wars 58-50 BC written by K. M. Gilliver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julius Caesar was one of the most ambitious and successful politicians of the late Roman Republic, and his short but bloody conquest of the Celtic tribes led to the establishment of the Roman province of Gaul (modern France). Caesar's commentaries on his Gallic Wars provide us with the most detailed surviving eyewitness account of a campaign from antiquity. In this book, Kate Gilliver makes use of this firsthand account and other surviving evidence to consider the importance of the Gallic Wars in the context of the collapse of the Roman Republic and its slide toward civil war.