Conquering the Ocean
Conquering the Ocean An authoritative new history of the Roman conquest of BritainWhy did Julius Caesar come to Britain? To the ancients, the Ocean was a body of water that circumscribed the known…
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Conquering the Ocean
An authoritative new history of the Roman conquest of BritainWhy did Julius Caesar come to Britain? To the ancients, the Ocean was a body of water that circumscribed the known world, separating places like Britain from terra cognita, and no one, not even Alexander the Great, had crossed it. His own account suggests that he invaded to quell a resistance of Gallic sympathizers in the region of modern-day Kent -- but there must have been personal and divine aspirations behind the expeditions in 55 and 54 BCE.
In the words of the historian Tacitus, he revealed, rather than bequeathed, Britain to Rome. While Caesar came and saw, he did not conquer. For the next five hundred years, Caesar's revelation was Rome's remotest imperial bequest.Conquering the Ocean provides a new narrative of the Roman conquest of Britain, from the two campaigns of Caesar up