A superb general and politician, Julius Caesar (c ... the northern borders of the empire and tackle its enemies in the east. At home, he reformed the Roman calendar, tackled local government ...

In 49 B.C. on the banks of the Rubicon, Julius Caesar ... Roman Legionnaire bronze statue, second to first centuries B.C., Museum of Roman Civilization, Rome Photograph by Art Archive The Senate ...

This is illustrated by one notable incident in the ancient Roman's life (involving pirates, of all things). In his account of Caesar's life, Plutarch writes that, as a young man, Julius Caesar was ...

A superb general and politician, Julius Caesar (c ... the northern borders of the empire and tackle its enemies in the east. At home, he reformed the Roman calendar, tackled local government ...

After eliminating his rivals in a civil war, general and politician Gaius Julius Caesar ... civil war that doomed the Roman Republic to mutate into an empire with Caesar's adopted heir Octavian ...