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. Share.

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 murder ...

Philip Freeman's 2009 book reveals in great detail "a biography of the cunning Roman conqueror Julius Caesar." This History Channel video describes how Julius Caesar sparked civil war. Bibliography ...

Alas for history, little of Caesar’s work survives (see The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar). What we do have, however, is important, the fourteen “books” of war commentaries; ...

FREEDOM, FAREWELL!—Phyllis Bentley —Macmillan ($2.50). HAIL, CAESAR!—Fletcher Pratt—Smith & Haas ($3.50). With the same workmanlike technique she used in her novels of Yorkshire mill-towns ...

EXCLUSIVE: Move over, Katniss. Lionsgate‘s Summit Entertainment has found its next franchise hero: Julius Caesar. The company, whose franchise fare has included Twilight Saga, The Hunger Games ...

Julius Caesar later attempted to rectify the mess by introducing the Julian calendar in 45 BCE, adding one or two days to the end of all the short months (except for oddball February) to make the ...

According to legend, somewhere in the lands of the Roman Republic, some time around 100 B.C.E., a man named Gaius Julius Caesar (perhaps you've heard of him) was brought into the world by being ...

The book critiqued previous theories of Caesar's murd… Mr. Parenti talked about his book, [The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome], published by The New Press.