Although he did not rule for long, he gave Rome fresh hope and a whole dynasty of emperors. Born into an aristocratic family in around 100 BC, Julius Caesar grew up in dangerous times. Rome could ...

In some ways he’s a pastiche of several Roman leaders. Of course, Julius Caesar was never an emperor. He was a military leader and politician when the Roman Republic was in its death throes.

Julius Caesar’s assassins had failed to solidify Rome’s Republic and prevent an autocracy. In Mary Beard’s book, she examines twenty-nine of ancient Rome’s emperors beginning with Julius ...

Emperor Trajan, a Spaniard and the first Roman emperor to be born outside ... In this clip from Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator, we are treated to a reenactment of Julius Caesar handling ...

An ancient square where historians believe Julius Caesar was stabbed ... buried under a new floor built by the emperor Domitian in the first century. Caesar's death has endured in Western culture ...

Few men of history have as formidable or as mighty a reputation as Julius Caesar He is not only one of the central figures of Roman history but a man who shaped the future of the world as we know ...

1): “Roman emperors ruled their world ... The span of history covered is generous, beginning with the decay of the Republic under Julius Caesar and ending with the death of Justinian the Great. This ...