{"product_id":"the-kidnapping-of-young-julius-caesar-a-true-story-of-pirates-ransoms-and-a-promise-of-revenge-9798245824062","title":"The Kidnapping of Young Julius Caesar: A True Story of Pirates, Ransoms, and a Promise of Revenge","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): A. Norvic\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Abductions, Kidnappings \u0026amp; Missing Persons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Kidnapping of Young Julius Caesar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA True Story of Pirates, Ransoms, and a Promise of Vengeance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInternational True Crime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the mid-1st century BCE, a young Roman aristocrat of about twenty-five set out on a journey through the eastern Mediterranean. He was not yet the celebrated general or the decisive statesman whom history would forever remember as Julius Caesar. He was an ambitious young man in an unstable Republic, sailing waters that Rome believed it controlled. Along the way, his ship was intercepted by Cilician pirates, beginning a kidnapping that would mark his youth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book reconstructs and organizes the documented facts of the case: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe high-seas capture carried out by a structured piracy network, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe captivity on a remote island, defined by the hostage's defiant attitude, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe negotiations to set and pay the ransom, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe role of local authorities and the limits of Roman power, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eand the promise of vengeance Caesar directed at the pirates who held him prisoner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on ancient sources and modern scholarship, the book offers a clear, contextualized view of an episode that reveals the fragility of Rome's control over the sea, the economic logic of kidnapping in antiquity, and the character of a young man who-even in the hands of pirates-behaved as someone convinced of his own destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA work of historical and criminal investigation-accessible, rigorous, and based on real events-focused on one of the most surprising episodes of Julius Caesar's youth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47570970673303,"sku":"9798245824062","price":914.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798245824062.webp?v=1774885516","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-kidnapping-of-young-julius-caesar-a-true-story-of-pirates-ransoms-and-a-promise-of-revenge-9798245824062","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}