{"product_id":"the-civil-wars","title":"The Civil Wars -","description":"\u003cp\u003eAppian's Civil Wars offers a masterly account of the turbulent epoch \u003cbr\u003e\nfrom the time of Tiberius Gracchus (133 BC) to the tremendous conflicts \u003cbr\u003e\nwhich followed the murder of Julius Caesar. For the events between 133 \u003cbr\u003e\nand 70 BC he is the only surviving continuous narrative source. The \u003cbr\u003e\nsubsequent books vividly describe Catiline's conspiracy, the rise and \u003cbr\u003e\nfall of the First Triumvirate, and Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon, \u003cbr\u003e\ndefeat of Pompey and untimely death. The climax comes with the birth of \u003cbr\u003e\nthe Second Triumvirate out of anarchy, the terrible purges of \u003cbr\u003e\nProscriptions which followed, and the titanic struggle for world mastery\u003cbr\u003e\n which was only to end with Augustus's defeat of Antony and Cleopatra. \u003cbr\u003e\nIf Appian's Roman History as a whole reveals how an empire was born of \u003cbr\u003e\nthe struggle against a series of external enemies, these five books \u003cbr\u003e\nconcentrate on an even greater ordeal. Despite the rhetorical \u003cbr\u003e\nflourishes, John Carter suggests in his Introduction, the impressive \u003cbr\u003e\n'overall conception of the decline of the Roman state into violence, \u003cbr\u003e\nwith its sombre highlights and the leitmotif of fate, is neither trivial\u003cbr\u003e\n nor inaccurate'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Appian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44249402900540,"sku":"9780140445091","price":717.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/the-civil-wars-9780140445091.jpg?v=1776806154","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/the-civil-wars","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}