Caesar’s co-consul is Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus who is a close ally of Cato, one of Caesar’s chief adversaries in the republic.

Julius Caesar transformed Rome from a republic to an empire, grabbing power through ambitious political reforms.

In 59 B.C., Caesar was elected consul and married a third time, to Calpurnia Pisonis, the daughter of a political ally. Caesar left Rome for Gaul.

"Caesar even ordered an inscription in the official record: ‘At the Lupercalia, when the consul Mark Antony offered the kingship to Gaius [Julius] Caesar, dictator for life, by the order of the ...

JULIUS CAESAR: THE MAKING OF A DICTATOR is a new three-part BBC-produced historical docudrama that explores how the nearly five-centuries-old Roman democracy was overthrown in just 16 years. The ...

A cornerstone of this framework was the lex Iulia, a series of laws associated with Julius Caesar (Consul and Dictator, 49–44 BC) and later reaffirmed and likely expanded under Augustus (27 BC ...

This extraordinary story is set in the Mediterranean, 16 years before Julius Caesar first became consul of Rome and more than three decades before he declared himself emperor for life. When the ...

Even the Roman statesman Julius Caesar would have been liable to prosecution when he lost the magisterial power (what Romans called “imperium”) accompanying the political offices of “consul ...

Julius Ceasar was elected to the office of Consul. He saw that the peasant proprietors were melting away, and that the city " of Rome was being choked with impoverished ...

As consul, Caesar wanted to pay off Pompey’s soldiers by allocating them public lands. This was unpopular, so to get the measure through he engineered a riot and used the chaos to get his own way.