Julius Caesar: Commentaries on the Gallic War

by Francis Willey Kelsey, Rex Stem (Editor)

This edition offers the intermediate/advanced Latin student everything he or she needs to read Caesar's Gallic the complete Latin text of Books 1-5 and 6.11-24, a thorough grammatical commentary, a full Latin-English vocabulary, an internal Latin grammar cross-referenced to the usage of Caesar, and twelve color maps illustrating Caesar's campaigns and battles. No other edition provides such completeness or such depth in helping students to read Caesar's Latin with proficiency and confidence.

343 pages, Paperback

Published December 15, 2017

Reviews

[Jeff Netting · Rating 5 out of 5]

It took me a long time to get through this! I used a student’s edition that featured just half of the book, but even that took me a while. It was an interesting read, I felt like I learned interesting things about the ancient world and how some things worked back then. I was also surprised by how good of a prose stylist Caesar was. All the same, I didn’t find the book especially deep or profound, at least, not the parts that I read. While the book is definitely of historical interest, I don’t think I’ll be reading the second half anytime soon.

I’ll rate it highly for the sake of edition, which was incredibly thorough and detailed in its notes, and had a very helpful supplementary section in the back.