including headings Hail Caesar, The first triumvirate, Caesar's years in Gaul, The Gallic War, Caesar and Pompey, ...
While Julius Caesar is improving on the solar calendar of 365 days, a similar calendar has been independently arrived at on the other side of the Atlantic. Devised originally by the Olmecs of central America, it is perfe...
The example of Julius Caesar's end makes Octavian cautious in pursuit of supreme power. During the years after his victorious return to Rome he seems to sidle, sometimes almost reluctantly, into the role which he will fi...
The arrival in Alexandria of Julius Caesar gives Cleopatra her first chance of a wider role in the world. She seizes it, becoming the mistress of the man who is now unmistakably - after his defeat of Pompey - the most po...
The Roman calendar introduced by Julius Caesar, and subsequently known as the Julian calendar, gets far closer to the solar year than any predecessor. By the 1st century BC reform in Rome has become an evident necessity....
Many of the details which make the lives of the Caesars so vivid derive from Suetonius: Julius Caesar, silent as the assassins stab him until the blow from Brutus prompts the single question used by Shakespeare as Et...
When Rome settles down at the end of the 1st century BC, after the civil wars provoked by Julius Caesar, the mood of consolidation brings with it a wish to celebrate Rome's past. This...
The four successors of Augustus are known as the Julio-Claudian emperors because they descend either from Augustus (whose mother was a niece of Julius Caesar) or from his second wife, Livia, who is a member of the Claudi...
Justinian, the Byzantine emperor, orders the restoration of the city and gives it its final name - Colonia Justiniana Carthago, commemorating himself and echoing the earlier involvement of Julius Caesar. Its last chapter...
The racy Lives of the Caesars, by Suetonius, deals with the ten emperors who feature in the Annals and Histories of Tacitus and adds the two founders of the empire, Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar....
In another context Cicero is again a primary source of historical evidence. An untiring correspondent, he is unique for his period in that more than 900 of his letters survive. He communicates with Pompey, Julius Caesar,...
Gaius Octavius, known to history first as Octavian and then as Augustus Caesar, is born in 63 BC in a relatively obscure patrician family. His only evident advantage in life is that his grandmother is Julia, sister of Ju...
For the non-specialist reader, works of history written in recent centuries are only familiar if they have also acquired a high reputation as literature. A good example is Gibbon's Decline and Fall.Previou...
As in many other areas, Rome follows the example of Greece in the importance accorded to oratory. Indeed ambitious young Romans tend to go to Greece to study this important skill. The school of rhetoric in Rhodes is part...
For all his theatricality (often seeming to behave like a character in one of the romantic operas of the period), Napoleon's achievements make his life one of the most extraordinary in history. Alexander the Great inher...
