In 2014, the Society of Classical Studies granted its Outreach Prize to Robert Strassler ‘for conceiving, initiating and editing The Landmark Ancient Histories'. Thanks to their modest price and quality of production, The Landmark Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon and Arrian made an impact inside and outside the classroom and in various disciplines beyond Classics, such as history, political science and philosophy. This volume, the first to be dedicated to a Roman author, by no means fails to live up to these expectations, and in many ways it exceeds them. Like previous Landmarks, the focus remains on the text: the introduction, by C. Damon and R., is balanced, rigorous and free of jargon; a synoptic table links a chapter-by-chapter summary with dates and locations of occurrence; footnotes, maps and pictures lavishly accompany R.’s new translation, while the marginal notes help readers to keep track of the when and the where; four appendices (‘Who's Who in Caesar’, ‘Roman Currency and Units of Measurement’, ‘Roman Calendars, Dates, and Time’ and ‘The Roman Military’), indexes and glossaries conclude the volume. This Landmark, however, goes beyond the printed volume: readers are constantly referred to 43 essays written by an international team of scholars and covering a wide array of topics, especially military, literary and historical. These essays, listed in the table of contents, are not printed but available free online (www.thelandmarkcaesar.com). Readers are also referred to an open access article by R. and J. Ramsey (Histos 11 [2017], 1–74), which was born as an appendix to the volume but took on a life of its own and represents the most updated and cogent study of the chronology of Caesar's campaign in Gaul. But The Landmark Julius Caesar also differs from previous volumes in the series and from other English translations of Caesar because it includes not only both the Gallic War and the Civil War, but also the rest of the corpus Caesarianum, which comprises four more books. One is the continuation of Caesar's Gallic War and was written by Aulus Hirtius, and three are continuations of Caesar's Civil War, written by unknown authors and transmitted as The Alexandrian War, The African War and The Spanish War. These four books remain less well known, and even if they take up almost 200 pages and were not written by Caesar, it was a commendable and bold decision to include them and make the appendices available online. Indeed, they constitute important historical documents, and perhaps the very fact that their Latin style compares so unfavourably with Caesar's constitutes one more proof of his literary genius.

In short, this is a tremendous resource because it advances our appreciation of Caesar's works and makes them more widely accessible: its rigour and clarity will appeal both to scholars and students and to Classicists and non-Classicists alike.