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President Trump’s actions are more far-reaching than Julius Caesar’s — and they have met less resistance than in Caesar's time.
The spear-throwing fetialis might have been the great-nephew, adoptive son and heir of the deified Julius Caesar, whom we call Octavian until his designation as Augustus five years later, in 27.
Caesar’s co-consul is Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus who is a close ally of Cato, one of Caesar’s chief adversaries in the republic.
At one point, Cicero and his consul asked members of the senate to weigh in on what should happen to a few prisoners. They all voted for the death penalty, except for then praetor-elect Julius Caesar.
Did Julius Caesar really say “Et tu, Brute?” Did Nero fiddle while Rome burned? What was with the togas? We answer these questions and more.
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 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 ...
Caesar then made an offer: to discharge his troops except for a couple of legions in exchange for keeping Gaul and being a candidate for consul the following year. The Senate split, even among his ...