"Veni, vidi, vici," or "I came, I saw, I conquered," is a phrase popularly attributed to Julius Caesar — but why did the ...

THE IDES OF MARCH (246 pp.)—Thornton Wilder—Harper ($2.75). Suppose that, after the death of Caesar, some industrious private investigator assembled all the relevant documents on the ...

ISBN: 0307455440 Caesar’s Wars, In His Own Words In addition to his military and political achievements, in his lifetime Caesar (100-44 B.C.) was a rather noted author and scholar, considered an ...

Julius Caesar’s Campaign Book The Roman general wrote ‘The Gallic Wars’ to bolster his claim to power—and launched a genre that’s still with us today By Barry Strauss March 29, 2019 12: ...

A Handbook to Caesar’s Works Well known largely for his great political and military skills, not to mention his spectacular assassination, in his times Julius Caesar was also celebrated for his ...

Lansford, who teaches Latin and Greek literature in the University of Colorado Boulder Department of Classics, is coaching Julius Caesar actors on rhetoric. Tyler Lansford, left, works with Director ...

One of the greatest figures in Roman history, Gaius Julius Caesar has been popularised time and again across various works of art and literature. Such was the popularity of the military figure ...

So begins Julius Caesar ’s “Commentaries on the Gallic War,” a work taught in high-school Latin classes and widely admired for the purity and incisiveness of its style by scholars throughout ...

Peter Stothard examines the events surrounding the murder of Julius Caesar in 44BC in a fascinating new book. Author says Rome and her empire were plunged into agonising civil war following his death.

Everything we know about him comes from a work called in Latin Commentarii de Bello Gallico , Commentaries on the Gallic War , written by Caesar himself — one of two books he authored.