Julius Caesar became the ... and the general splendour of his mode of life," Plutarch wrote. Caesar was an eloquent speaker who was even able to turn personal tragedies into political gains.

Researchers Recreate Julius Caesar’s Signature ... By 44 C.E., Caesar had enacted widespread reforms and declared himself “dictator for life.” His reign ended abruptly with his assassination ...

A superb general and politician, Julius Caesar (c ... By now, Caesar was very successful, but he had many enemies and found his position and his life under threat. He believed the only way he ...

When Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his legion, he put everything on the line. In "The Life of the Deified Julius," Suetonius writes that Caesar quoted an Athenian playwright as he crossed the ...

Blow-by-blow accounts of the Ides of March spare few details on how Rome's dictator-for-life met a bloody end ... assassins begin attacking Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 B.C., in a circa 1805 ...

This is what most of us know about the death of Julius ... involved: Caesar was turning the Roman republic into a dictatorship and making himself a king. But there were also deeply personal ...

In the 1930s an Italian archaeologist, perhaps playing to Mussolini’s enthusiasm for the dictator, firmly identified it as a portrait of Julius Caesar, taken from life. So accurate was it ...