# The Civil Wars

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- Book: [The Civil Wars](https://www.bookquiver.com/appian/the-civil-wars) ([The Civil Wars.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/appian/the-civil-wars.md))
- Authors: [Appian](https://www.bookquiver.com/appian)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-509-1
- Pages: 480
- Published: 2005-06-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Taken from Appian's Roman History, the five books collected here form the sole surviving continuous historical narrative of the era between 133-35 BC - a time of anarchy and instability for the Roman Empire. A masterly account of a turbulent epoch, they describe the Catiline conspiracy; the rise and fall of the First Triumvirate; the murder of Julius Caesar; the formation of the Second Triumvirate by Antonius, Octavian, and Lepidus; and brutal civil war. A compelling depiction of the decline of the Roman state into brutality and violence, The Civil Wars portrays political discontent, selfishness and the struggle for power - a struggle that was to culminate in a titanic battle for mastery over the Roman Empire, and the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra by Octavian in 31 BC