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The time Julius Caesar demanded his kidnappers raise their ransom
If you look back through the annals of ancient history, you'll find plenty of stories about ruthless rulers and terrifying warlords. But few figures possessed the sheer, unadulterated confidence of a ...
"Et tu, Brute?" ("You too, Brutus?") has become history's most famous betrayal line, but it's not really history at all. Let's retrace history in an attempt to discover what the Roman dictator ...
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Caesar’s bold philosophy upended Rome. You can use it to crush life.
Julius Caesar had three distinct traits that allowed him to reshape the Roman world. From conquering Gaul and crossing the ...
The events in Julius Caesar took place 2,000 years ago, but the idea of political assassination has a terrible resonance for Americans. One notorious figure, John Wilkes Booth, was obsessed with the ...
Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, ...
During the nine-year-long Battle for Gaul, Julius Caesar fought his way across northwest Europe. He invaded Britain twice; in 55BC, and again in 54BC. But while archaeologists have found evidence of ...
Why did a group of Roman senators gather near Pompey's theater on March 15, 44 B.C., to kill Julius Caesar? Was it their fear of Caesar's tyrannical power? Or were these aristocratic senators worried ...
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