tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730513615909994019.post2223787087897898485..comments2024-03-29T07:22:38.372+00:00Comments on Pop Classics: Caesar (by Alan Massie)Juliettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00203399623895589924noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730513615909994019.post-29643906173862089462010-11-12T15:31:01.909+00:002010-11-12T15:31:01.909+00:00That's true - this book is thoroughly research...That's true - this book is thoroughly researched and very accurrate when it comes to anything checkable - it's all the random sex that seems unlikelyJuliettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00203399623895589924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730513615909994019.post-68471523171531594672010-11-12T14:52:30.684+00:002010-11-12T14:52:30.684+00:00Could be worse. I once read a "historical&qu...Could be worse. I once read a "historical" fiction book that made Brutus not only the same age as Caesar but had him growing up with in Caesar's household almost as a brother. The first book in the series covered the Sulla-Marius conflict is a terribly inaccurate manner. I gave up after the first book.Jason Anoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730513615909994019.post-77771508674779263382010-11-12T00:02:39.967+00:002010-11-12T00:02:39.967+00:00They probably drank goats' milk, but it did se...They probably drank goats' milk, but it did seem like a parallel too far.Juliettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00203399623895589924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730513615909994019.post-44840820161147112642010-11-11T22:31:16.353+00:002010-11-11T22:31:16.353+00:00Milk? Did the Romans even drink milk? I don't ...Milk? Did the Romans even drink milk? I don't think so. That's going too far to draw parallels. And trying to portray Caesar as a Thatcherite is just weird.<br /><br />Marcus Brutus is so hard to get a handle on. given the sources we have he is a bundle of contradictions and yet so smooth he's almost not there. On the one hand, he seems like an ivory tower idealist, believing that everyone would be glad that Caesar was dead, yet he was just as much a political schemer as everyone else in his class. Pompey killed his father and he avoided Pompey like the plague, but he rushed to Pompey's side in the Civil War, because Pompey was more important to Rome than Brutus' feud with him. That last bit makes me think of Carrot - Personal isn't important - and there is a sort of overgrown boy scout aspect to Brutus, though I rather doubt the two of them would have got along. Bibulus' biography of Brutus, who was is step-father, is near the top of my list of lost works I'd like to have turn up.<br /><br />There appears to have been a temple of Jupiter at a <i>mansio</i> at the top of the Little St. Bernard Pass, but I can't seem to find the Latin name of it.DemetriosXnoreply@blogger.com