Julius Caesar Timeline
September 11th, 2007
Question: What is the best source of information about Vercingetorix, The Gaulic Wars and Julius Caesar?
Aside from Caesar's Gaulic Wars? My library sadly does not carry this nor do any bookstores. I have ordered them online but I want to do research and create a timeline in the meantime. I am researching Julius Caesar and Vercingetorix for a historical fiction book I am thinking of writing. Help me out?
I checked out the movie Druids and laughed. It's really inaccurate, badly directed and has some terrible acting. As someone who studied Latin and Roman history for 4 years in high school, I laughed until I cried. It's unfortunate that I've lost all my translations of C.G.W.
Answer: Try the histories of Appian and Dio, and the life by Plutarch.. Both of them are on the web. They MAY contain information from other sources than Caesar.
livius.org and attalus are also good sites.
Later - I've checked. Nothing in Appian. Some stuff in Dio. You would have to check it very carefully against Caesar to see if there were any discrepancies.
Lemprière's dictionary also notes Florus. Check him out too if you can.
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