Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar (100 BC to 44 BC) is listed in the Open Library author records as an author whose catalogue holds well over five hundred titles, most of them editions and translations of his own writing. The record names its top work as Commentarii de bello gallico et de bello civili, the commentaries on the Gallic War and the Civil War, and its subjects include history, Gaul, Rome, the Gallic Wars of 58 to 51 BC and the Civil War of 49 to 45 BC. Its short biography calls him a Roman general and statesman who played a critical role in the change from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire. He is placed with ancient and classical literature as the writer of those commentaries.