The Civil WarsBy: Appian Taken from Appian's Roman History, the five books collected here form the sole surviving continuous historical narrative of the era between 133 35 BC a time of anarchy and instability for the Roman Empire. A masterly account of a turbulent epoch, they describe the Catiline conspiracy; the rise and fall of the First Triumvirate; the murder of Julius Caesar; the formation of the Second Triumvirate by Antonius, Octavian, and Lepidus; and