The Civil War: Together with the Alexandrian War, the African War and the Spanish War by Other Hands

`All over Italy men were conscripted & weapons requisitioned. Money was exacted from towns & taken from shrines. All the laws of god & man were overturned.’ The Civil War is Caesar’s account of the celebrated war between himself & Pompey, from his crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 B.C. to Pompey’s death & the start of the Alexandrian War in the autumn of the following year. His unfinished account of the continuing struggle with Pomepy’s heirs & followers is completed by the three anonymous accounts of the Alexandrian, African & Spanish Wars, which bring the story down to within a year of his assassination in March 44 B.C. This annotated edition places the war in context, enabling readers to grasp it in detail & as a whole.