A orillas del Rubicón

Julius Caesar is the youngest of the three triumvirs who share power in Rome, although his recent victories in Gaul have greatly increased his popularity and fortune. However, the violent death of Crassus, in Assyria, leaves Pompey and Caesar face to face. On January 12, 42 BC, Caesar arrives at the Rubicon River along with the legion that follows him. Pompey awaits him in Rome, convinced of his superiority. The Rubicon is the limit of his province and, as consul, Caesar knows that if he and his legion cross it, it would imply violating the law of Rome and it would be the beginning of a civil war. History tells us that, given the magnitude of the challenge to be assumed and the risks he faced, perhaps for the first time in his life, Cesar hesitated. It was at that moment that he decided to consult his former teacher. This book collects the conversation between the two men, which is also a conversation between the two authors of this work. It reveals the absolute modernity of the character of César, dependent on "public opinion" and, according to the modern expression, on the "story", as no man had been before in history. In front of him, the wisdom and old values ??of the master of him. The result is an epistolary novel as lucid as it is memorable.