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The Civil Wars
by Appian
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Appian’s Civil Wars is a major ancient source for Rome’s internal conflicts from the Gracchi through Marius, Sulla, Caesar, Pompey, Antony and Octavian. It covers proscriptions, land disputes, political violence, Caesar’s Civil War, the assassination aftermath, Philippi, the struggle with Sextus Pompey, Actium and the final concentration of power under Octavian. The book is useful for tracing the sequence of people, places and causes across the Republic’s collapse.